Merlinda Carullo Bobis

Over the course of a hot Philippine summer, twelve-year-old Neris is inspired by the myth of the banana heart to find a way to appease her family's hunger and win her mother's love, in a poignant novel set against the backdrop of a small, poverty-stricken town near an active volcano. A first novel. Original. 40,000 first printing.

A Novel

Banana Heart Summer

That afternoon I took home a very hot jar of floated intentions and the lesson of the banana heart, the charm that I have kept in my pocket ever since: ‘Close to midnight, when the heart bows from its stem, wait for its first dew. It will drop like a gem. Catch it with your tongue. When you eat the heart of the matter, you’ll never grow hungry again

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Desire is bigger than anything that can fill it. Desire is a house with infinite extensions, even renovations, like my little prayer of want after that household conflagration.

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