The Rainbird
READING AGE 16+
Alfredo "Fredo" Trentinara leaves his US home to live in the Philippines as a television producer. There he meets a number of interesting characters, including a girl whom he falls in love with, a drunken anchorman, and a resentful executive assistant.
As odd events keep cropping up in his life, questions spin in a typhoon. Why did the girl, who was so warm in the beginning, grow distant and then disappear? Why did she return after letting a full year pass, with completely different traits and manners? Is she really the girl she claims to be?
Fredo doesn't quite think so. Instead, he deems her The Rain Bird. A replacement girl flown in from a terrible storm. A storm that Fredo himself may have created...
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I’d arrived in Manila in March, quite unsuspecting of the heat, which at high noon felt something akin to sticking my head inside an oven and trying to breathe. Just standing still on the curb with a cigarette caused many of my shirts to sweat through. Inside was better. I kept the condo unit’s air conditioner working full blast, ……
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