Grace Poe: The woman who was born twice

Coming out of college, our big ambition as aspiring writers was to write the great follow-up to Nick Joaquin’s astounding novel, The Woman Who Had Two Navels. But no matter how hard we tried, the goal eluded us. Navels was beyond reach.

So it comes as a shock to me that Grace Poe Llamanzares may be the one who has equaled or even surpassed Joaquin’s masterwork. She has done it by doing something even better than fiction; she has invented and written her own life, which bears this surreal title