A review by aquarius_octopus
Trafficking in nostalgia: Essays from memory by Exie Abola
challenging
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
"Many Mansions" evoked a weird sense of longing for my childhood because my family also used to keep moving from one house to another. My brother told me the author seems pretentious…don’t care though, I still enjoyed it.
Favorites:
1. essays about teenage infatuation
2. how 80's music shaped his generation
3. his experiences as a college student during the Marcos regime
4. him navigating life through adulthood.
Favorites:
1. essays about teenage infatuation
2. how 80's music shaped his generation
3. his experiences as a college student during the Marcos regime
4. him navigating life through adulthood.