Here’s one that finally recovers the myths and legends of Filipino folklore—Edgar Calabia Samar’s Janus Silang at ang Tiyanak ng Tabon (Adarna House, 2014), the first in a series of young adult novels featuring a teenage online gamer from a fictional town called Balanga. The character is caught in a quagmire of mysterious deaths eventually… Continue reading An odyssey to the indigenous in Janus Silang
