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Cecilia Brainard’s Book Review of Laurel Flores Fantauzzo’s MY HEART UNDERWATER

December 10, 2020 by admin Leave a Comment

Please read my book review of Lau­rel Flo­res Fan­tauz­zo’s MY HEART UNDERWATER in Pos­i­tive­ly Fil­ipino:
http://www.positivelyfilipino.com/magazine/girl-interrupted
“The nov­el My Heart Under­wa­ter by Lau­rel Flo­res Fan­tauz­zo is about a 17-year-old Fil­ipino Amer­i­can girl who is sent to the Philip­pines fol­low­ing a scan­dal. There, she is able to thread togeth­er the world of her par­ents with her own South­ern Cal­i­for­nia expe­ri­ence, and in so doing find healing.
The book fol­lows three sto­ry­lines: the gen­der issue of Cora­zon Tagu­bio; her father’s acci­dent; and her exile to the Philippines.
Cory and her par­ents live in a town­house in South­ern Cal­i­for­nia, where her moth­er works as a coder and her father as a painter/handyman. Her par­ents are hard­work­ing peo­ple who val­ue good edu­ca­tion and they make sac­ri­fices to send Cory to tuition-high Saint Agatha’s school. They also sup­port Cory’s half-broth­er in the Philip­pines who, because of immi­gra­tions issues, can­not join them in Amer­i­ca.” — Please con­tin­ue in Pos­i­tive­ly Fil­ipino.
Tags: Philip­pines books, Philip­pines fic­tion, Philip­pines nov­el, Young Adult, LGBT literature

Filed Under: Fiction, Uncategorized Tagged With: books, novels, Philippine American, Philippines

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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.

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