Is There Rush Hour in A Third World Country? Christy Ducker self-deprecating wit

self-deprecating wit

' The Pasdar

his life is shaped by casual violence

level of gravitas coupled with whimsy

Now translated by Kristine Ong Muslim into English

Is There Rush Hour in A Third World Country? Christy Ducker self-deprecating witCall centre agents and migrant workers, soldiers and charity workers, fresh university graduates and street children they all navigate the myriad of avenues in which their desires are entangled within the Philippines' harsh and unforgiving conditions of migration and labour in Rogelio Braga's collection of stories, Is There Rush Hour in A Third World Country? Now translated by Kristine Ong Muslim into English, the collection offers a glimpse of the