“Lacuesta creates an impossible sense of belonging one soul at a time. He’s a late-night DJ, a smooth, relentless voice transforming loneliness into off-kilter citizenship. Our post-modern, post-colonial, Post-brand cereal world offers endless points of reference, but each of Lacuesta’s lovingly created characters intuits a private way forward and thus traces for the reader an individual constellation of meaning. Lacuesta is not merely a DJ mixing messages from twin turntables, but also a scientist weighing inscrutable cultural and historical trade-offs in a pair of scales of subatomic sensitivity. These stories are pitch perfect.”
— Hugh Ferrer, Fiction Editor, The Iowa Review
Finalist, Philippine National Book Award
First Prize Winner
Palanca Memorial Award, for “Flames”
