“Puraw Keridx is a searing examination of love, betrayal, and the ancestral ghosts that mold us. In this collection, Elsa Valmidiano opens the wound of a union disintegrated by infidelity and reveals the larger forces braided through its collapse: colonialism, white supremacy, inherited histories, womanhood, and the brittle architecture of intimacy. With poetic precision and devastating clarity, she traces the fault lines between denial and truth, destruction and desire, cultural memory and personal grief. What begins as heartbreak expands into an urgent meditation on power, race, and survival, transforming private ache into communal witnessing. Puraw Keridx is not simply a narrative of rupture but a reclamation—a love story transfigured into elegy, and a fierce refusal to vanish inside the lies of others.” 
— Christina D. Rodriguez, author of Knees in the Garden

“Puraw Keridx is a tale of vulnerability, truth, and an Ilocano woman’s ache for ancestral love and safety. In this gripping story, Valmidiano reveals colonial legacies from Spanish, British, Japanese, and American rule over her ancestral home and how they have manifested in the life of a Filipina wife who discovers after sixteen years of a relationship that her white husband has been keeping a white mistress. In this truth-telling, Valmidiano critiques centuries of unchecked colonial white privilege in mixed-race marriages. We have never seen a book like Puraw Keridx before. An unforgettable voice in Filipina American literature.” 
— Arielle Taitano Lowe, author of Ocean Mother