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Please, San Antonio! & Melisande in Paris

Please, San Antonio! & Melisande in Paris
Two Novellas, Special International Edition

by Eve La Salle Caram and Cecil­ia Manguer­ra Brainard

PALH, 2018, softcover with illustrations, 166 pages, ISBN 9780971945883

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Delightful Stories That Take You Away to Italy and France

Eve La Salle Caram and Cecil­ia Manguer­ra Brainard, award­ed authors and long-time teach­ers of Cre­ative Writ­ing, team up in writ­ing two novel­las for the Spe­cial Inter­na­tion­al edi­tion pub­lished by PALH (Philip­pine Amer­i­can Lit­er­ary House). The book is beau­ti­ful­ly illus­trat­ed by Nina Lim-Yuson and designed by C. Sophia Ibardaloza. Caram’s and Brainard’s pro­tag­o­nists are women who jour­ney to Rome and Paris and find cre­ativ­i­ty, love, and healing.

 

Praise

“In Eve La Salle Caram’s Please, San Anto­nio!, an emo­tion­al­ly iso­lat­ed Amer­i­can woman’s trip to Rome becomes a pow­er­ful quest to find what she has lost: her cre­ativ­i­ty, iden­ti­ty, and “an open place in her heart.

“In Cecil­ia Manguer­ra Brainard’s Melisande in Paris, a young seam­stress from the French coun­try­side comes to Paris to assist her dress­mak­er aunt, and redis­cov­ers her tal­ent, strength, and a pre­cious “feel­ing of whole­ness” in her new lover’s arms.

“Togeth­er, Caram’s Beat­rice and Brainard’s Melisande cross geo­graph­i­cal bor­ders and bor­ders of the heart with vital­i­ty and spir­it, and will inspire those who believe in the pos­si­bil­i­ty of heav­en on earth.” (Lin­da Venis, Ph.D., For­mer Direc­tor, UCLA Exten­sion Depart of the Arts and Writ­ers’ Pro­gram; Edi­tor of Inside the Room and Cut to the Chase)

“Two delight­ful novel­las writ­ten by two award-win­ning authors, Eve La Salle Caram and Cecil­ia Manguer­ra Brainard, who write about women in search of love and con­nec­tions – lost and found, real and imag­ined. Their jour­neys draw us into worlds rich­ly shaped by light and dark­ness, tex­tures and col­ors that enrich our aware­ness of emo­tions shared in com­mon across gen­er­a­tions, nation­al­i­ties, and gen­der.” (Ake­mi Kiku­mu­ra Yano, Ph.D., Anthro­pol­o­gist and Cura­tor; Author of Through Harsh Win­ters and Promis­es Kept; For­mer Pres­i­dent and Chief Exec­u­tive Offi­cer of the Japan­ese Amer­i­can Nation­al Muse­um; Cur­rent Affil­i­ate Grad­u­ate Fac­ul­ty at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Hawai’i at Manoa.)

About the Authors

Eve La Salle Caram is the author of five nov­els, those in her book Trio, A Cor­pus Christi Tril­o­gy, and the inter­con­nect­ed duo of The Blue geog­ra­phy and Win­ter­shine. She is also the edi­tor of Palm Read­ings, Sto­ries from South­ern Cal­i­for­nia, a mul­ti­cul­tur­al anthol­o­gy of sto­ries by South­ern Cal­i­for­nia women.

For over thir­ty years she has taught Lit­er­a­ture and Writ­ing at Cal­i­for­nia State Uni­ver­si­ty, North­ridge, and Fic­tion Writ­ing at UCLA Extension’s renowned Writ­ers’ Pro­gram where she won the Out­stand­ing Instruc­tor in Cre­ative Writ­ing in 2006. She also teach­es at Los Ange­les City Col­lege whose stu­dents helped inspire her nov­el, Rena, A Late Jour­ney, and who asked her to write Look­ing for John­ny, the short nov­el that com­pletes Trio. All of her books have been used in Lit­er­a­ture and Writ­ing class­es in Cal­i­for­nia and in Texas.

Cecil­ia Manguer­ra Brainard has writ­ten three nov­els: When the Rain­bow God­dess Wept, Mag­dale­na, and The News­pa­per Wid­ow. She has also writ­ten and edit­ed eigh­teen oth­er books.

Cecil­ia has received 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. She has also been award­ed by the Fil­ipino and Fil­ipino Amer­i­can com­mu­ni­ties she has served. In 1998, she received the Out­stand­ing Indi­vid­ual Award from her birth city, Cebu, Philip­pines. She has received sev­er­al trav­el grants in the Philip­pines, from the USIS (Unit­ed States Infor­ma­tion Ser­vice). In 2001, she received a Fil­ip­inas Mag­a­zine Award for Arts. Her books have won the Gour­mand Award and the Gin­tong Aklat Award.

 


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