The Hour of Daydreams
Published on 14. March 2017
232 pages
978-1-942436-28-7 (ISBN)
Description
Manolo Lualhati, a respected doctor in the Philippine countryside, believes his wife hides a secret. Prior to their marriage, he spied her wearing wings and flying to the stars with her sisters each evening. As Tala tries to keep her dangerous past from her new husband, Manolo begins questioning the gaps in her stories-and his suspicions push him even further from the truth. The Hour of Daydreams, a contemporary reimagining of a Filipino folktale, weaves in the perspectives of Tala's siblings, her new in-laws, and the all-seeing housekeeper while exploring trust, identity, and how myths can take root from the seeds of our most difficult truths.
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Renee Macalino Rutledge
The Hour of Daydreams
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04/2017
Forest Avenue Press
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Renee Macalino Rutledge was born in Manila, Philippines, and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area from the age of four. A long-time local journalist, her articles and essays have appeared in ColorLines, Filipinas Magazine, Oakland and Alameda Magazine, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, Literary Hub, Mutha Magazine, the Ford City Anthology, the Women of Color Anthology, and others. The Hour of Daydreams is her debut novel. She lives in Alameda, California, with her husband and two daughters.
Content
- Intro
- Advance praise
- The Hour of Daydreams
- Contents
- Prologue
- Part I
- 1. Stolen Luck
- 2. What Lies Within
- 3. A Second Look
- 4. Openings
- 5. Ghosts
- 6. The Veins of a City
- 7. The Inner Sanctum
- 8. Road to a Landslide
- 9. Stowaway
- 10. Out of the Lonely Sky
- 11. Possessor of Fortunes
- 12. Shapes in the Water
- Part II
- 13. Playing at Life
- 14. They Disappear
- 15. Shadows, Ghosts
- 16. The Debt
- 17. Wakefulness
- 18. Shapeshifting
- 19. A Dream
- 20. She Leaves, Returns
- 21. The Mourning Lover
- Part III
- 22. The Hour of Daydreams
- 23. Many Colors
- 24. Conception
- 25. A City Rising
- About the Author
- Acknowledgments
- Readers' Guide
