Ian Rosales Casocot
Sugar Land, 2008 Longlist
Ian Rosales Casocot has won several Don Carlos Palanca Awards, the NVM Gonzalez Prize, the PBBY-Salanga Prize, and the Fully-Booked/Neil Gaiman Prize for his fiction. In 2010, he was writer-in-residence of the International Writing Program in the University of Iowa. His books include FutureShock Prose: An Anthology of Young Writers and New Literatures, Old Movies and Other Stories, Beautiful Accidents: Stories, and Heartbreak & Magic: Stories. He lives in Dumaguete, Philippines, where he teaches creative writing and literature in Silliman University.
Sugar Land tells the story of three friends in the small Visayan city of Dumaguete, in Oriental Negros. Their lives, linked to a local serial killer who once rampaged in the 1970s, come crashing together one August night at the height of the traditionally festive annual celebration of the city’s biggest university, which was founded by American missionaries in 1901. In a span of a week, as each prepares to attend the Grand Ball, they come to terms with their past, and finally confront the secret that binds them together.
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