Eating Fire and Drinking Water

I'm going to start making simple book reviews of literatures I have read starting this month. 

This is my first. =)

Eating Fire and Drinking Water is a required reading in my grad school. I took the subject, Emerging Literature, which requires me to read postcolonial novels. Now I kind of regret taking it because all I do is read books about war. It's too tiring and disturbing. I started with Ninotchka's State of War, Ahmad's No Harvest But A Thorn, then this one.

Unfortunately, I don't have other ways to pass the subject. Hence, I am trying to get used to expect reading more disturbing books. Overall, postcolonial novels contain sad, depressing stories. Colonization really gave postcolonial writers a traumatic unforgettable past, otherwise these books would not be created.

BOOK: Eating Fire and Drinking Water

AUTHOR: Arlene Chai (She's a Filipino =D )

GENRE: war, drama, slice of life, history

RATING: 

Though it contains an important story that is well-written, I couldn't give it 5 stars because I will never have the courage to read this book again or even browse its pages. It's too disturbing for me. It has very traumatic scenes that haunt my imagination.