REVIEW | Falling Ordinary: On Recordings on a Dead Alien from Sarangani by Carlou Barroca Espedillon

REVIEW | Falling Ordinary: On Recordings on a Dead Alien from Sarangani by Carlou Barroca Espedillon

Growing up in a town that sat squarely between the mountains and the sea, my friends and I spent our nights waiting for something to happen. We sat on the concrete barriers of an unfinished bridge, swinging our legs over the dark water, scanning the sky for a sign. We wanted lights. We wanted abduction. We wanted a rupture in the air of the province that would suck us up and deposit us somewhere, anywhere, that wasn’t here. We wanted to be speci…