What I liked about this book is its author, Candy Gourley, a Filipino immigrant in London, married to a foreigner. The only dissimilarity between them is that the former depicts the life of the Filipinos in an old-fashioned- modern period while the latter is steeped in the life of the Filipinos after WWII. Tall Story resembles Like A Brave Man by Nelson Carunungan, the first Filipino novel written in English that I have ever read. I grew out of the folk lifestyles, either in a province or in a modernized city: for examples, illiterate Filipinos speak “barok” English we still use a plastic beaker or a mosquito net tucked under the edge of a mat we are mad about playing basketball and we know Michael Jordan our stereotype about people working abroad is that they may be rich we are still instilled in superstitions and black magic despite the fact that we are now living in a modern era, and so on. Besides, I could relate to the story because it reflects in the Filipino customs and values, especially I used to be a “ provinciano”. This book is bittersweet, hilarious, witty, and magical although some parts are sad.
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