Eventually, Tony escapes, but she spends a lot of time in the prison herself. At first, she's kept there as a hostage, hoping it will lure out Tony. Then, she's kept there just because. She sees a lot of hardship and tortured souls, but her children seem to protect her somewhat. The guards love the children, and it affords her a bit of freedom and a way to help the prisoners. The psychological strain eventually gets to her and has lasting effects.
Since so much of the book focused on Tony and how much she relied on him, I hoped to hear if she ever heard what happened to him. That was never resolved, and it was disappointing. Even just to have an epilogue mentioning that she never found out one way or the other. But she never comments on her life after the trip from the Philippines to America. And what happened to the Japanese guard who helped her and saved her life? Did she try to find out what happened to him? It just felt a bit incomplete at the end.
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