Ever had a children’s story that has an underlying creepy lesson inside? Maybe, you have made familiar with your favorite story when you were a kid, never knowing it’s more than a bedtime fairytale? With the Ricky Lee’s latest venture, Kung Alam Nyo Lang, four childhood stories of coming-of-age will send you the chills of adulthood… in a child-like setting.
Avoiding spoilers, I tried (so hard) not to give away too many
details of the book.
Ang Nawawalang Diyos
A cliché story of discovering yourself by finding God (and not Nemo), the story
spices up with Carlo’s two pets, his dog and cat. Since this narrative is
already dime a dozen, it seems just the “click bait” of the book to reach the
common audience—but for me, it’s my least favorite.
Ang Sayaw ng mga Letra
I didn’t see the ending coming. Depression can seep in with years
of neglect and denial. Inches away from the ending, it urges you to look at
mental illnesses in a different light.
Si Inggo at ang Santo Kuwatro
Reopening the issues of bullying, it teaches us power of word of mouth. It
helps you realize how it can move people—it can haunt you, inspire you,
surprise you, and yes, it can also be twisted for personal
glory.
Nang Mapagod si Kamatayan
The defamiliarization of immortality is genius.
Even though my PHP 350.00 only lasted for 2 hours (excluding the
time I prepared for my midnight coffee), trust me it’s a good read. In fact, my
emotions are running wild as I flick through the pages. It’s the type of dark
stories that make you see a flash of light. Giving us a tinge of hope, it
signals the readers that emotional warzones of growing up has a rainbow.
People change with time. There are things that
happened to a person in his childhood and years later they seem to him alien
and strange. I am trying to decipher that child. Sometimes he is a stranger to
me. When you think about when you were 14, don't you feel a certain alienation?
- Gunter Grass
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