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Five Stars and a Grudge

By: Abundant Deepak
Narrated by: Harper Meyers
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Five Stars and a Grudge

Manong Bert has four rules for his car, and he has never once broken them. No food. No phone calls on speaker. The aircon stays exactly where he sets it. And you do not slam his door.

Pia Manalo breaks two of them in the first ninety seconds of their first ride together.

It should have ended there: one bad morning, one two-star rating, two strangers who never crossed paths again. Except the app keeps matching them anyway, at the same Katipunan corner, again and again, whether either of them wants it or not.

What starts as a rating dispute becomes something neither of them had planned for. Bert’s daughter needs tuition money he doesn’t have. Pia’s savings disappear into a scheme that leaves her questioning everyone, including herself. Neither of them asked to matter to the other. Both of them, somehow, start showing up anyway.

Set against the crowded, honking, endlessly generous chaos of Metro Manila, Five Stars and a Grudge is a warm, witty novel about unexpected friendship, quiet dignity, and the extraordinary ways ordinary people change each other’s lives.
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