It happened in the Philippines

"Owing to the fact that for the first two decades of my life I was not versed in the language, I would experience a sense of displacement when engaging with the English prose. Despite not having anything to show for it, neither setting nor language, it was as if the stories were only claiming they’d happened in the Philippines. "

“It Happened in the Philippines” is the introduction of Mustiness: A Poetics of Disruption, from the author’s undergraduate thesis.