Book Review of Growing Up Filipino 3 by Dr. Lynn Grow, Positively Filipino

 

Book Review of Growing Up Filipino 3 by Dr. Lynn Grow, published in Positively Filipino:

http://www.positivelyfilipino.com/magazine/sumptuous-fil-am-fiction-roots-and-all

 

 Excerpt,. please continue reading in the Positively Filipino link. 

"Growing Up Filipino 3 is another masterful assemblage of short fiction collected and edited by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard. The quality of this book should come as no surprise given Brainard's track record over the years. She has demonstrated a virtually impeccable literary judgment more than once, not only with Volumes One and Two in the Growing Up Filipino series, but also in very creative collections like A La Carte: Food and Fiction, co-edited with Marily Ysip Orosa (Anvil, 2007), in which recipes for delectable dishes like Kare-Kare are juxtaposed with delectable short stories like Brainard's own “Romeo.” This also illustrates Brainard's conviction that editing and writing are cut from the same cloth. The introduction to her Selected Short Stories (PALH, 2021) makes this clear: “Each of the thirty-nine stories... was born from my obsession over a character, a time period, a situation, or a place ...some ‘thing’... rooted in my imagination, prompting me to give the numinous 'thing' form.” This description applies equally well to the 25 stories in Growing Up Filipino 3..."

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