Kurot sa Puso | Althea Domingo | Literary Fiction

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Some people survive heartbreak.
Others simply learn how to carry it quietly.

In these stories of longing, memory, missed timing, and impossible love, Althea Domingo writes about ordinary Filipinos trying to move forward while parts of their hearts remain trapped somewhere in the past.

A woman attends a wake she was never supposed to enter. A commuter keeps returning to the same bus stop years after being left behind. Old songs linger inside cafés, airport terminals, wedding receptions, city streets, and rainy evenings where silence says more than confession ever could.

Tender, witty, and emotionally devastating, Kurot sa Puso blends the aching intimacy of classic Filipino romance with the restraint of contemporary literary fiction.

These are stories about the people who stayed too long, loved too deeply, and left too quietly.

Because sometimes the deepest wounds are not caused by betrayal. Sometimes they are caused by love that arrived at the wrong time.