A review of Miguel Syjuco’s (CRF 2013) novel I Was The President’s Mistress!!, entitled “Sex Goddess, Celebrity and the Best Hope for Her Country” was recently featured in the New York Times. “It’s a rare novel that leaves you reeling simultaneously with admiration, exhaustion, amazement at its author’s reach and skill, and desolation at the world it spreads out before you. Add to that a dose of borderline despair for the future of our species, and you have a sense of how you’re likely to feel by the end of Miguel Syjuco’s flawed but formidable political satire, I Was the President’s Mistress!!” Click here to read the full review.

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