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Brainard Novel Launched at Manila’s #Solidaridad Bookshop

July 30, 2019 by admin Leave a Comment

 

The pho­to shows l‑r, stand­ing: Tillic Lorayes, Cyn­thia Posa, Vir­gilio Reyes Jr., Cecil­ia Brainard, Paulo Ange­lo Lopez Apoli­nar, Charl­son Ong ; Seat­ed l‑r: Nel­son Navar­ro F. Sion­il Jose, Ama­do Ma. Guerrero.

Last July 6, 2019, the Philip­pine edi­tion of my nov­el WHEN THE RAINBOW GODDESS WEPT (UST Pub­lish­ing House) was launched at Sol­i­dar­d­iad Book­shop, 531 Padre Fau­ra, Ermi­ta, Mani­la, at 5 p.m.  The event was cospon­sored by PEN International.

The first book I launched at Sol­i­dari­dad was WOMAN WITH HORNS AND OTHER STORIES around 31 years ago. I launched sev­er­al oth­er titles of mine there, includ­ing the time Mt. Pinatubo erupt­ed — 1991, I believe. 

I have a lot of rich mem­o­ries of the icon­ic Sol­i­dari­dad book­shop, a won­der­ful home for writ­ers, read­ers, and intellectuals.


The launch was a spe­cial time for me to con­nect with some of Man­l­la’s wri­iters, aca­d­e­m­i­ca, and intel­lec­tu­als. Indeed we had a high­ly stim­u­lat­ing and won­der­ful time after my pre­sen­ta­tion.  Sala­mat to Mani­la PEN, Sol­i­dari­dad, and to dear Frankie and Tessie Jose who have shep­erd­ed both PEN and Sol­i­dari­dad through the years.

Here are pic­tures tak­en at the book launch of Cecil­ia Brainard’s nov­el at Sol­i­dari­dad Book­shop, cospon­sored by PEN Inter­na­tion­al. Many thanks to Vir­gilio Labi­al for many of these photos.

 

Chair of PEN Board Lito Zulue­ta and Cecilia

 Cecil­ia and Charl­son Ong

The enthu­si­as­tic fam­i­ly of Ramil Digal Gulle, his son, and daugh­ters Lak­sh­mi Isabelle and Sophia with Cecilia.

Cecil­ia, Cristi­na Pan­to­ja Hidal­go, Charl­son Ong

Mila San­til­lan, Pao­lo Ange­lo Lopez-Apoli­nar, Tillic Lorayes

 

 

Also pub­lished in my oth­er blog:  Trav­els (and More) with Cecil­ia Brainard:  https://cbrainard.blogspot.com/2019/07/brainard-novel-launched-at-manilas.html

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I am a daugh­ter of the Philip­pines and an adopt­ed daugh­ter of Amer­i­ca. I have also trav­eled to many places so I am also a daugh­ter of the Earth. My expe­ri­ences have found their way into my sto­ries, which try to depict char­ac­ters caught in impor­tant moments in their lives, sit­u­a­tions that force them to act, make deci­sions, change. I try to see the world from my own point of view, not the dom­i­nant West­ern one, thus my inter­est in his­to­ry, cul­ture, and set­ting. But my char­ac­ters car­ry my sto­ries; they are the most impor­tant in my sto­ry-telling. I have to dive deep into them to under­stand their human­i­ty – their good­ness as well as their bad­ness, their beau­ty as well as their ugli­ness. Just like us. Just like each of us. I need to know where they came from, where they are now, so I under­stand where they are going. Just like us.

Please read my full biog­ra­phy here

 

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