TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: FILIPINO FIL-AM BOOKS FOR CHRISTMAS GIFTS

Thursday, December 17, 2020

FILIPINO FIL-AM BOOKS FOR CHRISTMAS GIFTS

BOOKS MAKE GREAT CHRISTMAS GIFTS!
Here are 3 popular short story collections perfect for Filipino and Fil-Am youths and adults too, easily available from Amazon.

FICTION BY FILIPINOS IN AMERICA collects 22 stories by Filipinos and FilAm writers, including Carlos Bulosan, Bienvenido N. Santos, N.V.M. Gonzalez, Linda Ty-Casper, and more.  
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1953716059

GROWING UP FILIPINO: STORIES FOR YOUNG ADULTS includes 29 stories about the saga of what it means to be young and Filipino.
https://www.amazon.com/Growing-Up-Filipino-Stories-Adults/dp/0971945802

GROWING UP FILIPINO: MORE STORIES FOR YOUNG ADULTS includes 27
stories that deal with the universal concerns of growing up: family, friends, love, home, budding sexuality, leaving home. https://www.amazon.com/Growing-Up-Filipino-II-Stories/dp/0971945837

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.