Flowers for Thursday
Country: Philippines
Author Name: Mia P. Tijam
Publisner Name: Ateneo de Naga University Press
Original Language: English
The flow of the agimadmad, the native imagination, is constant and ceaseless in “Flowers for Thursday”.
The trees are endowed with supernatural powers.
The Bakunawa is transformed into a giant monitor lizard which comes out in the first rains of May.
Doppelgangers live revolutionary lives.
A transgender can talk to chickens and becomes an aswang.
Our lady of Peñafrancia is reincarnated.
And friends cease to be imaginary.
Crossing the bridge of difference and boundary of expression— in the forged tongue of English interwoven with the native languages of Rinconada, Bikol, Tagalog, Filipino, and Baklese as the dynamic language of the Philippine LGBTQIA+ community— between the visible and invisible world, between the past and the present, these stories are where the known and the stranger, the joyful and melancholic merge in a space given free reign.