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The Cartographer's Daughter
A Novel
She redrew the coast. The empire redrew her.
In 1897, a mapmaker's daughter finishes the survey her father did not live to complete — and discovers what the map was for.
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Manila, 1897. When the colonial survey office loses its senior cartographer to fever, his daughter Remedios quietly finishes his charts because no one else can read his hand.
For two years she draws a coastline she has never seen, and no one thinks to ask who is holding the pen. Then a naval officer requests the northern sheets, and Remedios begins to understand exactly what her lines are being used to do.
A novel about authorship, complicity, and the violence that can be done with a very fine instrument.
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Meticulous and quietly damning. Almario has written a historical novel that refuses to be decorative.Advance reader
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