Cecilia Brainard Updates on Filipino & Filipino American Books by PALHBOOKS

Cecil­ia Brainard (own­er and man­ag­er of PALHBOOKS.com) gives an update on the Fil­ipino and Fil­ipino Amer­i­can books pub­lished by Philip­pine Amer­i­can Lit­er­ary House (PALH), palhbooks.com. It’s also on YouTube here — link below. The nar­ra­tive is past­ed below:

https://youtu.be/bbl9JO8qcUk

Cecil­ia Brainard here, writer edi­tor and pub­lish­er of PALH or Philip­pine Amer­i­can Lit­er­ary House.

I’d like to update you on the pub­li­ca­tions of PALH. All except one are now avail­able in hard copy as well as in Kin­dle form. The hard copies are avail­able from Philip­pine Expres­sions, Ama­zon, and Barnes and Noble online.  Or con­tact palh@aol.com for copies.

PALH’s titles include:

Lin­da Ty-Casper’s A Riv­er, One-Woman Deep, Sto­ries, of which World Lit­er­a­ture Today’s Nota Bene sec­tion reviewed: “In this col­lec­tion of sto­ries, Fil­ip­ina Amer­i­can Lin­da Ty-Casper runs her fin­ger along the scars left behind in the wake of his­tor­i­cal events in the Philip­pines pars­ing out what it means to live through and after the trau­ma of dic­ta­tor­ships and war.

Ty-Casper’s A Riv­er, One-Woman Deep: Sto­ries is also pub­lished by the Uni­ver­si­ty of San­to Tomas Pub­lish­ing House in the Philippiens.

 

PALH’s author of Bene­dic­ta Takes Wing and Oth­er Sto­ries, Veron­i­ca Montes, recent­ly won the Black Lawrence Price for their Black Riv­er Chap­book Com­pe­ti­tion. Her debut col­lec­tion of 14 sto­ries, Bene­dic­ta Takes Wing and oth­er Sto­ries, has been praised as sto­ries that explore the intri­cate work­ings of Fil­ipino fam­i­lies as they strug­gle to define their place in the world.

     

 

Two of PALH’s ear­ly pub­li­ca­tions, Grow­ing Up Fil­ipino: Sto­ries for Young Adults and the fol­lowup book Grow­ing Up Fil­ipino II was includ­ed in Nation­al Geographic’s Sum­mer Read­ing List for 2020. The books remain pop­u­lar and con­tin­ue to be used by educators.

 

Fur­ther PALH pub­lished a Spe­cial Inter­na­tion­al Edi­tion, titled Please, San Anto­nio! and Melisande in Paris, 2 novel­las set in Italy and in France. The sto­ries are about women who find heal­ing in rela­tion­ships. The book also has delight­ed­ly illus­tra­tions by Nina Lim-Yuson.

 

PALH also pub­lished a spe­cial lim­it­ed edi­tion of my 43 sketch­es in reed and pen and ink. There are only 100 signed and num­bered hard­bound copies avail­able.  I had no train­ing in art when I did these sketch­es which tried to cap­ture my mag­i­cal years a child in my birth city of Cebu.

 

Thanks for your time, and I’m hop­ing you will sup­port the work of Philip­pine Amer­i­can Lit­er­ary House so it can con­tin­ue fine Fil­ipino and Fil­ipino Amer­i­can books.  Look for palhbooks.com or in Face­book, search Philip­pine Amer­i­can Lit­er­ary House.

Sala­mat.