"Babang Luksa"

Title"Babang Luksa"
Year for Search2022
AuthorsReed, Nicasio Andres
Secondary AuthorsThiam, Aïcha Martine, and Santiago, Gabriela
Secondary TitleReckoning 6: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice
Pagination27-40 with a note on the author on 41
Date Published2022
PublisherReckoning Press
Place PublishedLake Orion, MI
ISBN Number978-1-955360-04-3
KeywordsFilipino author, Male author, US author
Annotation

The story is set in a drowned Philadelphia told from the point of view of a man who left to work on reclamation/defense project around the country but has returned to see his multi-generational family that lives in an area that didn’t flood but is surrounded by water.

URLBabang Luksa – Reckoning
Holding Institutions

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Author Note

The author was born and raised in the US and lives in the Philippines.

Full Text

2022 Reed, Nicasio Andres. “Babang Luksa.” Reckoning 6: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice. Ed. Aïcha Martine Thiam and Gabriela Santiago (Lake Orion, MI: Reckoning Press, 2022): 27-40 with a note on the author on 41. Also published online at Reckoning, no. 6 (February 13, 2022). Babang Luksa – Reckoning. PSt 

The story is set in a drowned Philadelphia told from the point of view of a man who left to work on reclamation/defense project around the country but has returned to see his multi-generational family that lives in an area that didn’t flood but is surrounded by water. The author was born and raised in the US and lives in the Philippines.