“Writing is searching, someone once told me,” says one of Lacuesta’s protagonists. “You search for something and you don’t know what it is until you’ve found it.”
What these stories have in common is the questions which they raise and do not answer, and the aloneness of their protagonists. Loneliness, lovelessness, impermanence, death, lie at their heart.
Life Before X is an exceptional first book, one which raises expectations for the next one, and the next.”
from the Introduction, by Cristina Pantoja Hidalgo
Winner, Madrigal-Gonzalez Best First Book Award Winner
National Book Award First Prize Winner
Palanca Memorial Award, for “Life Before X”
Third Prize Winner, Palanca Memorial Award, for “The Daughter of the Wind”
First Prize Winner, Philippines Graphic Award, for “Harvest”
First Prize Winner, Philippines Graphic Award, for “The Last Retreat”
(University of the Philippines Press, 2000)
