Soledad's Sister is the second novel of Filipino author Jose Dalisay (the first being Killing Time in A Warm Place, 1992).
The novel starts in a cloudy August night when a casket bearing the corpse of one who is identified as Aurora V. Cabahug arrives in Ninoy Aquino International Airport from Jeddah.
Mysteriously identified by Jeddah authorities as having died from drowning, she is one of 700 Filipino overseas workers who return as corpses to NAIA every year.
Rory learns of her sister's death and she claims the body with the help of a local police officer, Walter G. Zamora.
The novel is situated precisely in a time which Filipinos and those who have experienced emigration, whether personal or through the exodus of their family members, can relate to.