ABOUT THE BOOK

Twelve stories. Twelve characters. Twelve lives entwined by the converse themes of discovery and loss.

In Found: Stories, dreams provide a welcome respite from heartbreak. The shedding of inhibitions does not always follow the stripping of clothes. Happiness is ephemeral—like footprints easily washed away by the ebb and flow of tide on the shore. Unsettling realizations always come in the hours when one is half-dreaming and half-awake.

While on the surface it may be still and deceptively calm, Found: Stories plumbs the depths of human emotion at different stages of life, brings it to the surface—to hold it to the light and examine it. The story collection dissects loss and studies what constitutes the joy in recovery and, perhaps, even in making new discoveries and, ultimately, new connections.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

May Tobias-Papa graduated with a degree of Fine Arts, major in Visual Communication, cum laude, from the University of the Philippines, where she is currently finishing her graduate studies in English Literature. May’s creative portfolio as writer and art director consists of work done for a clientele engaged in a wide variety of businesses, including major multinational companies, while working for some of the country’s top advertising agencies. May had also worked as creative consultant at the Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation and ABS CBN Global, and as an associate professor at the UP College of Fine Arts. She has been writing age- and developmentally-appropriate fiction and non-fiction books for children for almost three decades now, published both as writer and illustrator by local and international publishers of children’s books. Found: Stories is her very first collection of short stories for grown-ups.