Riverrun, A Novel

Riverrun is a rite-of-passage novel on the life of Danilo Cruz, a young gay man who
grows up in a colourful and chaotic military dictatorship in the Philippines. Shaped
like a memoir, it glides from childhood to young adulthood in chapters written like
flash fiction and vignettes, along with a recipe for shark meat, a feature article,
extracts from a poem and vivid songs. It can be classified as literary fiction, that is
nevertheless accessible to the general reader.

About the Author: Danton Remoto studied Literature at Ateneo de Manila University, in the Philippines (BA, MA), Publishing at the University of Stirling, in the United Kingdom (MPhil), World Literature at Rutgers University, in the United States, and Creative Writing at the University of the Philippines (PhD). He has taught in the US and the Philippines, and is currently the head of school and professor of Creative Writing at the University of Nottingham in Malaysia. He has also worked for the United Nations and hosted a daily TV–radio show in the Philippines for six years, called Remoto Control.

Included in Esquire Magazine's 36 Favorite Filipino Books of 2022

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