Tenorio Lysley - Monstress Stories - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: The debut of an electric literary talent. Brilliantly quirky often moving always gorgeously told . Bravo for this fabulous American fiction! Chang - Rae Lee New York Times bestselling author of Native Speaker A wonderful story collection that's as wide and rich and complex as the geography it spans. Ben Fountain PEN/ Hemingway award - winning author of Brief Encounters with Che Guevera Tenorio is a deep and original writer and Monstress is simply a beautiful book. Jessica Hagedorn author of Dogeaters A luminous collection of heartbreaking vivid startling and gloriously unique stories set amongst the Filipino - American communities of California and the Philippines Monstress heralds the arrival of a breathtaking new talent on the literary scene: Lysley Tenorio. Already the worthy recipient of a Pushcart Prize a Whiting Writer's Award and a Stegner Fellowship Tenorio brilliantly explores the need to find connections the melancholy of isolation and the sometimes suffocating ties of family in tales that range from a California army base to a steamy moviehouse in Manilla to the dangerous false glitter of Hollywood.
Title: Monstress Stories
Author(s): Tenorio Lysley
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780062059567
Pages: 240 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 1/31/2012