Softcover. Cellar Book Shop, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 100 pages. For six months in 1983, Tim Bascom lived with a family in the Tatalon slum, Quezon City, Philippines, sharing their day-to-day struggles. There the seed was planted for this novel--a story that would reveal the lives of the Filipino poor in their suffering and dignity. SIGNED BY AUTHOR.