MARIANAS Variety editor Zaldy Dandan’s fourth book, “If He Isn’t Insane Then He Should Be: Stories & Poems from Saipan,” is now available on amazon.com and at Bestseller Saipan at the MAC Building next to McDonald’s on Middle Road, Chalan Laulau.
Bestseller is open Monday to Saturday, 12 noon to 6 p.m. Call 670-235-7612 for more information.
From the blurb:
“These stories about Filipino contract workers on the Pacific island of Saipan depict their all-too human longings, heartbreaks and delusions that verge on the tragic and/or comic. In ‘Tapochao,’ the protagonist seeks God’s help in untangling a romantic knot. In ‘Moving On,’ a philanderer agonizes over the shocking murder of his ex. In ‘Jude the Borgesian,’ a writer wannabe befriends a literary genius who despises literature. And in ‘Handyman’ we meet a married man in his 50s still clinging to the memory of a lost love after a near-death experience.
“As for the (almost) postcard-like poems, they are about some of the island’s most fascinating features and bits of history served with fruit bat soup.”
