Happy Endings

Here are stories about reinvented identities, lost loves, thermoacoustic engines and Wednesday afternoons. Award-winning writer Luis Katigbak's collection of fiction takes a look at our world and refracts it through a lens of wild imagination and humor: A girl receives anonymous postcards from otherworldly places. Two people who share a computer start to wonder if they share anything deeper. A man wakes up with the knowledge that the world is going to end by next Sunday. Katigbak, once described by Gregorio Brillantes as one of the "fine new writers" who "stand out", has crafted a collection of stories where the mundane can be immeasurably precious. Today, more than two decades after its first publication, Happy Endings continues its influence on a new generation of writers with its soft lyricism, dry wit, and snatches of everyday magic.