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Drizzle in the City and Other Stories Book 2
Paperback
Publisher Price: $23.00
ISBN13: 9789353532307
Publisher: Ukiyoto Publishing
Published: Dec 31 2025
Pages: 494
Weight: 1.44
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
'Drizzle in the City and Other Stories: Book 2 is a quiet return to the city-one that listens closely to its breathing, its pauses, and the fragile courage of those who move through it each day.
Composed of one hundred short stories, the collection captures fleeting moments often overlooked: commuters sharing a dawn jeepney ride, lovers parting beneath patient streetlamps, strangers offering comfort on a terminal bench, a broken umbrella enduring the rain, half-open curtains revealing lives shaped by silence and perseverance. These are not grand narratives, but intimate, human ones-tender, restrained, and deeply familiar.
Set in Manila and its surrounding cities, the stories explore healing, loss, waiting, resilience, and quiet hope. The city itself becomes a living witness-watching, remembering, and holding space for people learning how to begin again after heartbreak, illness, exhaustion, or uncertainty. Rain, bridges, lamps, and streets return not as symbols to be solved, but as companions to lives unfolding in the in-between.
Written with gentleness and emotional honesty, Book 2 expands the world of Drizzle in the City into a contemplative meditation on survival and softness. It speaks to those carrying invisible battles, moving more slowly now, healing in ways unseen. Together, these stories form a mosaic of quiet courage-reminding us that healing does not always arrive loudly, and that simply continuing can already be an act of grace.
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