living, loving, leaving
In summary, book’s tagline tell us what to expect: a story of living, loving and leaving
Another excellent work by one of my favorite authors. But this time he deviates from the fantasy world and the unreal to people who you could probably relate to if you are in my age group. As the title implies it’s set or at least base elements in the story on the events that transpired in what historians call the Martial Law years, and the people alive or at least born during this time were called martial law babies. Without really having to broadcast my age, I too belong to this category, the youngest of which would be in their early twenties if you count that martial law ended in 1986.
Back to the book. The story is well written in a way that reflect today’s reality with memories of yesteryears that don’t use the usual flashback scenarios but rather what you and me and whole lot of other people are doing right now: Blogging. In a way, it bridges the generation that is now with the generation then. It also shows that no matter what generation you were born into, we basically had the same things in life, only the motivation and the circumstances surrounding them differed somewhat.
It’s a good read that I highly recommend, whether you belong to this generation or not.
