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Book review: Jet Tagasa’s The Secret Lives Of OFWs blends migrant workers’ experience and horror
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The Secret Lives Of OFWs, comprising eight stories, is the debut horror collection of Jet Tagasa.
PHOTOS: STILLS STUDIO, PENGUIN BOOKS
Dave Chua
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By Jet Tagasa
Fiction/Penguin Books/Paperback/207 pages/$21.69
Jet Tagasa’s debut collection The Secret Lives Of OFWs ambitiously merges supernatural horror with the experiences of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs). While not every story hits its mark, the collection succeeds in capturing the distress and alienation felt by those displaced from their homeland.
