A review by jujujuris
Riverrun by Danton Remoto

3.0

This was a unique read, and I’m not sure if I felt the pacing was off because of the way it’s structured in vignettes or if I could even say that since I’ve never read anything structured like this before. I wish we could’ve spent as much time in adolescence as we did in childhood.

The restraint coupled with a sense of familiarity grounded on the (I assume) deliberately hazy timestamps of its setting like the presence of colonizers and markers of the dictatorship is unlike anything I’ve encountered.

Joey Ayala’s Panganay ng Umaga (1991)