The Art Inside the Book — Field Guide

Every part of Book One opens with a piece of interior art. Four parts, four plates — each one created in black and white first, the way it prints inside the paperback, before it exists anywhere in color.

Black-and-white interior illustration from Part One of Tiktik: A Summer of Three Names, showing a woman with her back to the reader

Full-color interior illustration from Part One of Tiktik: A Summer of Three Names, showing a woman with her back to the reader

Part One: Maingat (Careful)

This one opens Part One. She's the first thing you see, before you know why she matters.

Black-and-white interior illustration from Part Two of Tiktik: A Summer of Three Names, a close-up of the kapre's eyes watching from the trees

Full-color interior illustration from Part Two of Tiktik: A Summer of Three Names, a close-up of the kapre's eyes watching from the trees

Part Two: Mabait (Good)

This one opens Part Two. Those eyes belong to the Kapre — and that's not a threat, that's him keeping watch.

Black-and-white interior illustration from Part Three of Tiktik: A Summer of Three Names, featuring the tikbalang

Full-color interior illustration from Part Three of Tiktik: A Summer of Three Names, featuring the tikbalang

Part Three: Matapang (Brave)

And this one opens Part Three. The Tikbalang — walking a path that isn't as straight as it looks.

Black-and-white interior illustration from Part Four of Tiktik: A Summer of Three Names, showing a country house in the Philippine provinces

Full-color interior illustration from Part Four of Tiktik: A Summer of Three Names, showing a country house in the Philippine provinces

Part Four: Wakas (The End)

And this one opens Part Four. The lights are ahead of her now, not behind.

Four pieces of art. Four parts of the book.