Selected Short Stories by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard
Cecilia Manguerra Brainard
(Author)
Description
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, the Selected Short Stories by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard is an important work by a major writer. Written in a poetic style rich in imagery, her observant eye's subject is both transnational and local, societal and relational in the more personal scale of family, friendship, love. These stories have an oral quality in the best sense of the word, by a master of the form. Brian Ascalon Roley, author of Ambuscade and American Son , and Professor of English, Miami University. Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's short stories cover not just the history of the Philippines - Spanish and American colonial rule, the bloody Marcos era, the high price of fighting for political and economic freedom - but also the deeply moving hesitations and complexities of the human heart: the loves and longings and losses that shape and haunt a life, the sensuality and desires that rip apart the fabric of social life, the intricacies of girlhood and female friendship, the confrontation of cultures, the loneliness and courage of Filipino-Americans and others who have left their homelands and the idea of home. Beautifully written, masterfully crafted, these stories are at once heart-breaking, entertaining, and profoundly humane - very difficult to put down, impossible to forget. Reine Arcache Melvin, author of The Betrayed: A Novel . Cecilia Brainard's well-crafted stories deal with fictional Manila and Mexico, Intramuros and Acapulco, Ubec and Cebu. She has the uncanny ability to enter the skin of her characters and give them their singular voices. Her Selected Stories only affirm what we have long known: that she has already vaulted into the front rank of the Philippines' best writers fiction. Brava!" Danton Remoto, author of Riverrun, A Novel. Cecilia Brainard is the author of over 20 books, including the novels: When the Rainbow Goddess Wept, Magdalena, and The Newspaper Widow. She has received awards, including a California Arts Council Fellowship, a Brody Arts Fund Fellowship, an Outstanding Individual Award from Cebu, a City of Los Angeles Cultural Grant, and more. She has served as an Executive Board Member of PEN; and she has also served as an officer in such groups as Pacific Asian American Women Writers West, and the Arts & Letters at the Cal State University, Los Angeles.Product Details
Price
$19.95
Publisher
PALH
Publish Date
August 02, 2021
Pages
278
Dimensions
6.0 X 9.0 X 0.63 inches | 0.91 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781953716019
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About the Author
Cecilia Manguerra Brainard was born and raised in the port city of Cebu, Philippines, a place she has turned into her mythical setting called "Ubec" for many of her stories. She attended St. Theresa's College and Maryknoll College in the Philippines before migrating to the United States to do graduate work in film making. She later turned to writing and other literary work. She went on to write and edit twenty-two books. Brainard has taught at the University of Southern California, UCLA, California State Summer School for the Arts, UCLA-Extension's Writers Program. She lectures and performs in literary arts venues such as Shakespeare and Company in Paris, Culture Rapide in Paris, Beyond Baroque, PEN, Coming Together in Skokie, Illinois, Second Literary Symposium in Jackson Tennessee, Filipino American International Book Festivals, Cebu Philippines Literary Festivals, and many Philippine and US universities. As a former Executive Board Member of the writers' group PEN, she represented PEN USA West in international meetings in Barcelona and Santiago de Compostela. She served as an officer in such groups as the Midnight Special Cultural Center, PAAWWW (Pacific Asian American Women Writers West), and the Arts & Letters at the Cal State University, Los Angeles. Brainard co-founded PAWWA (Philippine American Women Writers and Artists) a support group that received funding from the California Arts Council. She founded and runs PALH (Philippine American Literary House), a publishing house of fine Philippine American books. She is an active member of the Philippine and Philippine American literary communities. She has received several awards including a California Arts Council Fellowship, a Brody Arts Fund, an Outstanding Individual Award from her birth city Cebu Philippines, a City of Los Angeles Cultural Grand, several USIS grants, California State Senate, 21st District, and others. Her books have won the Gintong Aklat Award, the International Gourmand Award, and others. She is married with three sons.
