A review by balkeyeston
Song of the Mango and Other New Myths by Vida Cruz

5.0

What an AMAZING book! As someone who loves magical realism, folklore, and mythology encroaching on realistic worlds in fiction, this has by far been the best short story collection I've read that incorporates all these things and demands the reader to challenge their inherent points of view and subvert our expectations of how stories can be told. I'm also quite jealous that this author has such a following from her mentors and peers in the SFF world. As someone who is struggling through my own short fiction of Filipino folklore and stories of hybridity and colonialism, I find this book to be a master class on genre craft that I look forward to coming back to.