Book description:
"When your heart soars or sinks in ways that unmoor you, where do you go? To a house bathed with light up in the mountains, where you've been expected all along. To airport terminals and train stations, to empty streets and crowded cities, to a sleepy seaside town. To Tokyo, to Amsterdam, to Honolulu, to New York City. To Disneyland, a library, a funeral home, an apothecary. To a place where there are no crash landings. Somewhere you know by heart. Back to where it all began, retracing your steps until every corner feels like home.
The authors of In Case You Come Back explore love, loss, life, and loneliness in this collection of poetry and prose, mapping out the disasters and triumphs we all navigate in hopes of finally finding our place."
About the authors:
Marla Miniano is the former editor in chief of Candy Magazine and Summit Books, and now the editor in chief of Cosmopolitan Philippines. She is the Author of the YA series Every Girl's Guide and the short story collections Table for Two and From This Day Forward. Her work has been published in Poetry Magazine and on rookiemag.com.
Reese Lansangan is an independent singer-songwriter, pop-folk musician, visual artist, fashion designer, and multi-awarded creative from Manila. As a performer, she has brought her music from local to foreign shores and has been representing the Philippines in several international music festivals since 2015. Stream her music on Spotify.
Jamie Catt is a freelance visual artist and illustrator currently based in San Francisco, CA. Heavily inspired by the world and seeing its magic unfold each day, she produces vivid illustrations that capture the whimsical attributes of her imagination.
Tata Yap is a creative director for Code and Theory Manila, a graphic designer, and design lecturer at the Ateneo de Manila University.
Excerpt:
I arrive earlier than what's written on my boarding pass. I buy a croissant and eat it from the wax paper. I dust little brown flakes off my pants. I song to myself. I crack open the new book that I bought specifically for this trip. It is a ritual of sorts, buying a holiday book. Not finishing is part of the ritual, too. I wrap my hands around myself, feeling the cold through my windbreaker. Instantly, my mind flies to my green dresser drawer back home, where I keep all of my good sweaters. The thing about packing is you always take the things you end up not needing. Always leaving behind the things that should've been brought. I look around. The airport is teeming with people. Here are the men in suits, women on phones, parents clutching souvenirs, children wreaking havoc - the everyday picture of a place like this.
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