2 Navels

The novel, ¡°The Woman Who Had Two Navels¡±, is about Connie Escobar, a rich and confused girl, who goes to Hong Kong to find herself and to run away from her troubled life in the Philippines. She encounters the Monson brothers, Pepe, a horse doctor, and Tony, a priest, who desperately tries to help her realize that she was living in an illusion of lies she has created to escape reality rather than facing it. …

…who mysteriously survives death and comes back to terrorize the innocent anew. Over all, the novel disappointed me. The author thought that by presenting something controversial or complex and by using confusing abstract ideas and metaphors would make the novel seem mature and deep, that it would show a higher level of insight. Instead, it became a jumble of mad ideas. The only bright spot of the novel is its title, at least its funny.