MARIANAS Variety editor Zaldy Dandan’s fourth book, "If He Isn’t Insane Then He Should Be: Stories & Poems from Saipan," is available on amazon.com/.
From the blurb:
“These stories about Filipino contract workers on the Pacific island of Saipan depict their all-too human longings, heartbreaks and delusions that verge on the tragic and/or comic. In ‘Tapochao,’ the protagonist seeks God’s help in untangling a romantic knot. In ‘Moving On,’ a philanderer agonizes over the shocking murder of his ex. In ‘Jude the Borgesian,’ a writer wannabe befriends a literary genius who despises literature. And in ‘Handyman’ we meet a married man in his 50s still clinging to the memory of a lost love after a near-death experience.
“As for the (almost) postcard-like poems, they are about some of the island’s most fascinating features and bits of history served with fruit bat soup.”
Dandan is also the author of a collection of poems, “We’ll Kiss Like It’s Air and We’re Running Out of It”; a book of short stories, “Die! Bert! Die!”; and a novel, “How I Learned What Really (Probably) Happened to Amelia Earhart” — all available on amazon.com/.
