But for my foreigner Goodreads friends and those too young to know, this was how it looked like: Of course Smokey Mountain was closed in the late 90's by then President Ramos.
Oh, the names of the characters are very Filipino: Rafael Fernandez, Gardo, Jun-jun "The Rat" etc. Why? He used the places that are familiar to us Filipinos: Smoky Mountain (for us it is spelled with an "e" as in Smokey), Green Hills (Greenhills is a shopping center in San Juan where the former president/vice-president/senator, Joseph Estrada lives), McKinley Hill and the currency is in pesos and the country celebrates All Soul's Day on November 2nd when people flock to cemeteries to pay respect to their dead. Trash by Andrew "Andy" Mulligan, a British theatre director, drama teacher and now novelist is set most likely in the Philippines.
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