![]() She eventually dies from a complication during childbirth. Before long, she returns home not only with a broken heart, but expecting. One is the tragic story about his cousin, Naomi, a bright and sassy girl, who runs away from home with a classmate at the university. He has a way of presenting beautiful quotidian moments in a delicate manner that shows the longing and the depravity of a human soul. ![]() Remoto is a keen observer of people and situations. His mother would guide his hand to form ‘the arcs, loops and crosses, the dips and turns of the letters’. It begins with Danny learning alphabets before he enters kindergarten. This coming-of-age story is exquisitely told through vignettes, short prose, recipes (yes, you read it right) and song lyrics. As the title suggests, the narrative runs gently like a river. It chronicles the life of Danny Cruz, a young gay man in the Philippines between 1960s and 1970s in two parts. This expanded edition has two additional chapters that are set in London and Scotland. ![]() The Philippines edition of Riverrun was first released in 2015, and the international edition was published in 2020 by Penguin South East Asia. Then the machine goes tilt and snaps off.’ That’s what Filipino author Danton Remoto uses to craft his most intimate novel, Riverrun. ![]() In The Art of Memoir, Mary Karr describes memory as ‘a pinball in a machine – it messily ricochets around between image, fragments of scenes, stories you’ve heard. ![]()
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