Jessica Hagedorn

Dogeaters is a novel written by Jessica Hagedorn and published in 1990. Hagedorn also adapted her novel into a play by the same name. Dogeaters, set in the late 1950s in Manila, addresses several social, political and cultural issues present in the Philippines during the 1950s. The title is a common derogatory term …

Jessica Hagedorn has received wide critical acclaim for her edgy, high-energy novels chronicling the clash and embrace of American and Filipino cultures. With Dream Jungle, she achieves a new level of narrative daring. Set in a Philippines of desperate beauty and rank corruption, Dream Jungle feverishly traces the …

The Gangster of Love is a novel written by Jessica Hagedorn and published by Houghton Mifflin in 1996.