Lives Remembered, A Memoir

 

Lives Remembered, A Memoir
by Linda Ty-Casper
PALH 2025, 192 pages
ISBN 9781953716460 (sc)
ISBN 9781953716477 (hc)


Written in her 90s, Lives Remembered, A Memoir is the autobiography of award-winning Filipino author, Linda Ty-Casper, who says “this memoir is about the lives of all the people who have become part of me and made me who I am.”
In her Memoir, Ty-Casper pours her heart into sentences that bring to life the people, places, experiences, and memories that, at the age of 94 remain precious to her. She starts with her earliest memories describing where she lived and the people who populated her world then. There is Nanay the Grandmother who had seven children, and who became widowed, moved to Manila with her four daughters, and there played at the gaming tables to help support her family. This grandmother told Linda stories about the Philippine revolution against Spain, the war with the Americans, and who used to tell her, “Someone should write this story, the story of my life.” The young Linda took her grandmother’s words to heart and eventually wrote historical novels and other books, over 18 in total, including the recently reissued Three-Cornered Sun (Exploding Galaxies 2024).

She received the SEA Write Award, the ALIWW Parangal and FAWN, among others; grants from Harvard, Radcliffe, Wheatland; residences include Bellagio Rockefeller Center, Djerassi, Siliman, UP Writers.

Book Trailer of Lives Remembered — https://youtu.be/iCqlj3dOx8Q


PRAISE:

Always encouraging her readers to remember the past, historical novelist Linda Ty-Casper, now in her nineties, has gone on this journey for a final time through writing her own memoir. Recalling wartime moments to everyday appointments, she tenderly returns a whole cast of names and places to life, with family come and gone but all clear and warm as yesterday. Ty-Casper is hands down one of my favorite recorders of history for the way she materializes times lost to us, and she has accomplished this now with her own life. A must-read for fans of Linda Ty-Casper. ~ Mara Coson, Publisher of Exploding Galaxies


For Linda Ty-Casper, foremost fictionist, the first Filipina writer in English who ventured into the difficult historical novel genre, it is now her own personal history she focuses the spotlight on. And a most interesting and rich life story it is. In her characteristic meticulously detailed narrative spanning some eighty years, she brings us to a world filled with a remarkable variety of encounters, of experiences with interlocking ties of family, friends, colleagues, fellow writers, neighbors, even strangers—people, she says, “who have become a part of me and made me who I am.” ~ Thelma E. Arambulo, Writer, Literary Studies Scholar, Former UP Chair of the Dept. of English and Comparative Literature


Readers of Ty-Casper’s historical novels will discover clues from Lives Remembered of how an author’s life, particularly religion and family, shaped her writings. Yet more importantly, they will discover that humility of a writer who pursues and develops her talent at the service of her people. ~ Carol A. Nuñez, Ph.D., Former Faculty Member, Department of English, Ateneo de Manila University


Linda Ty-Casper’s Lives Remembered, A Memoir is specifically, as she says, about “the lives of all the people who have become part of me and made me who I am,” and she narrates her interactions with a remarkable number of people. In fact, in all respects the specificity of detail is remarkable … Readers are treated to an account of a life well-lived. ~ Lynn M. Grow, Ph.D. Emeritus Senior Professor of English, Broward College, Florida.

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