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Finalist 41st National Book Award, Anthology English GROWING UP FILIPINO 3: NEW STORIES FOR YOUNG ADULTS collects 25 short stories by Filipino authors in the US and the Philippines about what it means to be young and Filipino. The stories explore the universal themes of coming-of-age, love, angst, family, relationships, and other young adult issues. The stories reveal Filipino and Filipino American culture, mores, history, society, politics, a...

Asian and Philippine Folktales contains retellings of beloved Asian and Philippine folktales as retold by members of PAWWA (Philippine American Women Writers and Artists), a small group of Filipina writers who had published these stories in two books. This folklore collection includes 25 stories from places such as Laos, Japan, Korea, Sumatra, Vietnam, China, Bali, Indonesia, India, and the Philippines. The book's target audience is 9 and olde...

Edited by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard, the book, Fiction by Filipinos in America, is a collection of short stories that includes writings by Philippine and Philippine American writers Cecilia Manguerra Brainard, Carlos Bulosan, Luis Cabalquinto, Virgina R. Cerenio, Juan C. Dionisio, Alberto S. Florentino, Ligaya Victorio Fruto, Jean Vengua Gier, N.V.M. Gonzalez, Erlinda Villamor Kravetz, Paulino Lim, Jr. Manuel R. Olimpo, Julia L. Palarca, Osca...

Winner 40th National Book Award Best Book Short Fiction EnglishFinalist Gintong Aklat Award Selected Short Stories by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard collects 39 of the award-winning Filipina American author's short fiction. The book includes some of her best short stories, including fiction that deal with fictional Manila and Mexico, Intramuros and Acapulco, Ubec and Cebu. The book has been praised as follows: Powerful, poignant and engrossing, th...

The newspaper widow was first published by the University of Santo Tomas Publishing House, copyright Ã2017, Cecilia Manguerra Brainard"--Title page verso.

LYRICAL AND POETIC NOVEL BY AWARD WINNING AUTHOR This 2021 US Edition of the novel MAGDALENA includes illustrations by the author, Cecilia Manguerra Brainard. Written in the fragmented style, Philippine American author Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's lyrical novel, MAGDALENA, tells the story of three generations of Filipino women whose lives have been affected by the Philippine American War, World War Two, and the Vietnam War. A favorite among po...

Growing Up Filipinos: Stories for Young Adults is the acclaimed collection of stories about the experience of growing up Filipino. Emerging and established award-winning writers are the authors of this fine collection of 29 short stories about what it means to be young and Filipino in the Philippines and the United States. Filipinos in America are the second largest in the umbrella group of Asian Americans, yet there is a scarcity of books by ...

Edited by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard, CONTEMPORARY FICTION BY FILIPINOS IN AMERICA collects 26 short stories by Filipino and Philippine American writers, including Luis Cabalquinto, Linda Ty-Casper, Jay Ruben Dayrit, Alma Jill Dizon, Ligaya Victoria Fruto, N.V.M. Gonzalez, Vince Gotera, Paulino Lim, Jr., Veronica Montes, Oscar Penaranda, Edgar Poma, Greg Sarris, Eileen Tabios, John Silva, Marianne Villanueva, Fatima Lim-Wilson, and others. Fir...

First published in the Philippines in 1995, this 2020 US Edition of Acapulco at Sunset and Other Stories collects seventeen stories inspired by the author Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's Filipino and Filipino American experiences, the short stories are grouped into four categories: Long Ago Tales, Stories from the '60s and '70s, Stories from the '90s, and American Tales. The poet Marjorie Evasco praises the book saying: "The stories of Cecilia Ma...

BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN BY AWARD WINNING AUTHOR This 2020 US Edition of the short story collection, WOMAN WITH HORNS AND OTHER STORIES, by Philippine American writer Cecilia Manguerra Brainard introduces her first book to new readers. First published in 1987, the book collects a dozen stories that draw from historical and contemporary sources. Many of the stories explore the clash of Philippine culture with foreign influences that reached the arch...

Please, San Antonio! & Melisande in Paris are two delightful novellas written by award-winnng authors about women who journey to Rome and Paris and find creativity, identity, love, and healing.In Eve La Salle Caram's Please, San Antonio!, an emotionally isolated American woman's trip to Rome becomes a powerful quest to find what she has lost: her creativity, identity, and "an open place in her heart."In Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's Melisande i...

Growing Up Filipino II: More Stories for Young Adults is the second volume of the Growing Up Filipino series by PALH. In this collection of 27 short stories, Filipino and Filipino American writers explore the universal challenges and experiences of Filipino teens after the historic events of 9/11. The modern demands do not hinder Filipino youth from dealing with the universal concerns of growing up: family, friends, love, home, budding sexuali...

Twenty-seven more stories about the saga of what it means to be young and Filipino.

A novel of epic proportions that chronicles recent Philippine history and culture

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard has written an ambitious novel of forbidden love. Set against the turbulent history of East Asia in the twentieth century and by turns erotic and tragic, Magdalena vividly depicts three generations of strong Filipino women. Aimee Liu, author of Cloud Moutain Cecilia Manguerra Brainard¿s novel Magdalena takes its title from a protagonist descended from several generations of equally compelling female character...

In this fine short-story collection, 29 Filipino American writers explore the universal challenges of adolescence from the unique perspectives of teens in the Philippines or in the U.S. Organized into five sections--Family, Angst, Friendship, Love, and Home--all the stories are about growing up and what the introduction calls "growing into Filipino-ness, growing with Filipinos, and growing in or growing away from the Philippines."... The stori...