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Pia Cortez is a poet and a writer from Pampanga, Philippines, currently residing in the San Francisco Bay Area. Read more →

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Best use of footnotes ever. Love this book so hard 👐🏾

all yt all summer even tho it’s foggy af ☁️ really want a #readingvacation, who else wants one? 📖🖤⛱

Give me a church made entirely of salt. Let the walls hiss and smoke when I return to shore. ("Sea Church" from OCEANIC by Aimee Nezhukumatathil) Spent my Saturday with this book & loved ones by the Pacific, buoyed by Nezhukumatathil’s poetry, filled up with water-prayers in the form of food, stories & dance 🌊 Thank you @copper_canyon_press for my copy, review coming v soon on @libromance 🙏🏾

Still in my feelings, water water water all over 🌊 Wearing a cute set from @cult.collection, use PIATHABIA for 15% off ✌🏾 shot by @tenderrani

“When you work in a convenience store, people often look down on you for working there. I find this fascinating, and I like to look them in the face when they do this to me. And as I do so I always think: that’s what a human is.” —CONVENIENCE STORE WOMAN by Sayaka Murata, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori Ever have one of those moments where you feel like you’re not made for this world? That nothing you see around you makes any real sense but you’ve got to get on with the norm & what’s expected just so people can stfu? Meet Keiko Furukara, the star of this quirky, hella real novel. Loved reading Murata’s book so much, as it explored societal pressures and tbh, ills of our modern lives. Check out my thoughts on this book by tapping that link in bio (with photos from a trip to my local @daiso_official)! Special thanks to @groveatlantic for my copy 💖

Celebrating seven months of no dairy, no nightshades, no booze. I miss sipping my whiskey neat, noshing on @jollibee spaghetti & eating a shitload of @cowgirlcreamery Mt. Tam, but a happy gut is a happy me so here’s to figuring out how long I could do this 🙏🏾👅🙇🏽‍♀️

"Every now and then, a classmate would tap me on my shoulder and ask me to say something in "Indian." I was tempted to say "ben-chod," which, when translated, means "sister-fucker." I taught them "namaste" instead. Namaste, they would say, folding their hands in prayer. I never said it back." —IF YOU SEE ME, DON’T SAY HI by Neel Patel (@hewritez) Another reason to celebrate this week: this collection of short stories came out on Tuesday! @hewritez dips in and out of the constellation of love, marriage, familial expectations/obligations, gossip & the strands of being first-generation Indian-Americans in eleven beautiful stories. Hella heart tugs for the eponymous story of brothers Deepak and Premal, probably my favorite in the collection ✨ Thank you to @flatiron_books for my copy 🙏🏾

"There’s a reason why we have no word for it. You don’t get to keep the feelings for someone you once loved. Once you’ve washed your hands of that person, all those feelings, all that dirty water is washed out to sea. There is no word for that dirty water.” —THE SEAS, Samantha Hunt (@tin_house) Call it a #bookhangover because days after reading THE SEAS, I’m still thinkin about it 🌊 #linkinbio

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