Name: Smaller and Smaller Circles
ISBN: 9781616955274

F. H. Batacan

Smaller and Smaller Circles

Still as relevant today as the day F.H. Batacan wrote it. The country isn’t doing better then, it’s even worst now and seem we have learned anything.

Nate

"In northeast Manila's Quezon City is a district called Payatas--a 50-acre dump that is home to thousands of people who live off of what they can scavenge there. It is one of the poorest neighborhoods in a city whose law enforcement is already stretched thin, devoid of forensic resources and rife with corruption. So when the eviscerated bodies of teenage boys begin to appear in the dump heaps, there is no one to seek justice on their behalf. In the rainy summer of 1997, two Jesuit priests take the matter of protecting their flock into their own hands. Father Gus Saenz has been a priest for three decades, but he is also a respected forensic anthropologist, one of the few in the Philippines, and has been tapped by the Director of the National Bureau of Investigations as a backup for police efforts. Together with his protege, Father Jerome Lucero, a psychologist, Saenz dedicates himself to tracking down the monster preying on these impoverished boys. Cited as the first Filipino crime novel, Smaller and Smaller Circles is a poetic masterpiece of literary noir, a sensitive depiction of a time and place, and fascinating story about the Catholic Church and its place in its devotees' lives and communities"--

Smaller and smaller circles

i honestly do not know kung ano ilalagay ko sa review na ito. the book left me too torn and emotional. well-written and very compelling that i couldn’t put the book down. 

Nikki

** spoiler alert **
           My reading hours are at night and every time I turn a page, I feel like someone’s gonna come inside my room and slice open my face. 

I felt kind of disappointed with what happened to Alex. Felt like it was rushed. The whole book was so good though.

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