TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: Cecilia Brainard Reviews Laurel Flores Fantauzzo's Novel MY HEART UNDERWATER

Wednesday, December 9, 2020

Cecilia Brainard Reviews Laurel Flores Fantauzzo's Novel MY HEART UNDERWATER

Please read Cecilia Brainard's book review of Laurel Flores Fantauzzo's MY HEART UNDERWATER in Positively Filipino:

http://www.positivelyfilipino.com/magazine/girl-interrupted

"The novel My Heart Underwater by Laurel Flores Fantauzzo is about a 17-year-old Filipino American girl who is sent to the Philippines following a scandal. There, she is able to thread together the world of her parents with her own Southern California experience, and in so doing find healing.

The book follows three storylines: the gender issue of Corazon Tagubio; her father’s accident; and her exile to the Philippines.

Cory and her parents live in a townhouse in Southern California, where her mother works as a coder and her father as a painter/handyman. Her parents are hardworking people who value good education and they make sacrifices to send Cory to tuition-high Saint Agatha’s school. They also support Cory’s half-brother in the Philippines who, because of immigrations issues, cannot join them in America." - Please continue in Positively Filipino.

Tags: Philippines books, Philippines fiction, Philippines novel, Young Adult, LGBT literature

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's official website is ceciliabrainarddotcom. She is the award-winning author and editor of 22 books, including When the Rainbow Goddess Wept, The Newspaper Widow, Magdalena, Selected Stories, Vigan and Other Stories, and more. She edited Growing Up Filipino 1, 2, & 3, Fiction by Filipinos in America, Contemporary Fiction by Filipinos in America, and other books.. Her work has been translated into Finnish and Turkish; and many of her stories and articles have been widely anthologized. Cecilia has received many awards, including a California Arts Council Fellowship in Fiction, a Brody Arts Fund Award, a Special Recognition Award for her work dealing with Asian American youths, as well as a Certificate of Recognition from the California State Senate, 21st District, and the Outstanding Individual Award from her birth city, Cebu, Philippines. She has lectured and performed at UCLA, USC, University of Connecticut, University of the Philippines, PEN, Shakespeare & Company in Paris, and many others. She has served in the Board of literary arts groups such as PEN, PAWWA (Pacific Asian American Writers West), among others.