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Writing Home: Nineteen Writers Remember Their Hometowns
No other place evokes such power of memory and emotion as the places we call home. Now, some of the best contemporary Filipino writers remember their hometowns, factual or adoptive, urban or rural, real or remembered, in poetry, fiction and essay. Writing Home: Nineteen Writers Remember Their Hometowns is a gathering place for those who wish to commemorate the places where their lives took root, and where every return is welcome.
192 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2002
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March 23, 2025
An absolute relic of Philippine literature. The way the writers in this collection of essays romanticizes, encapsulates, and infuse their lives--their childhoods, their families, the city and all its glory is just chef's kiss. I long to write something like this--to write my home like this, and maybe in writing, to myself, and to others who read it, my hometown will be remembered like how I did.
December 7, 2016
Aside from the poignant, visceral and coming-of-age "Cagayan de oro: outward journey", the cleverly written "the bacon vendetta" and the highly socialized and grounded "A son of Palawan returns", the other stories included in this anthology felt uninspired, disjunct and at times muddled. Probably a reflection of the other authors vague and forced recollection of their childhood memories and hometown.
April 20, 2019
Thinking of your home or childhood is tricky. You either really like it or not. What's certain is it holds a lot of emotion and memory; and you'll always have an affinity of where you grew up, the people around you, and what you did.
This is an anthology of those longings. 19 bodies of work from 19 Filipinos; in fiction or non-fiction. Collectively, they are set at the backdrop of their provinces and hometowns. Individually, they have their own stories to tell.
This book felt like home. The typical Filipino nods to a festive aura on special days, the smell of home-cooked meals, the soul of a park with its noise and bustle or the buzzes and chirps under trees in a province.
Why read Writing Home?
These were written by some of the country's best authors. It gives nods to specific areas, regions where one may not have visited or has little information about. It portrays snapshots of life at a different part of the world.
How can you use this information?
Travel to other provinces and meet other people. Also, Filipinos have some great writers, it pays to look more into their work
(Hey, if you're not too pressed for time, visit my blog: http://booknewb.home.blog/ )
This is an anthology of those longings. 19 bodies of work from 19 Filipinos; in fiction or non-fiction. Collectively, they are set at the backdrop of their provinces and hometowns. Individually, they have their own stories to tell.
This book felt like home. The typical Filipino nods to a festive aura on special days, the smell of home-cooked meals, the soul of a park with its noise and bustle or the buzzes and chirps under trees in a province.
Why read Writing Home?
These were written by some of the country's best authors. It gives nods to specific areas, regions where one may not have visited or has little information about. It portrays snapshots of life at a different part of the world.
How can you use this information?
Travel to other provinces and meet other people. Also, Filipinos have some great writers, it pays to look more into their work
(Hey, if you're not too pressed for time, visit my blog: http://booknewb.home.blog/ )
August 16, 2022
Wish I could get a hold of this book once again.
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