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Cecilia Brainard’s October Literary Events — HOTP & Book Talks

October 9, 2019 by admin Leave a Comment

 

Cecil­ia Brainard will be in two lit­er­ary events this October.

 

12/21 State­ment from Cecil­ia Manguer­ra Brainard regard­ing PAWA and Hot Off the Press Lit­er­ary Read­ings: Please be informed that I will no longer be work­ing on future Hot Off the Press Lit­er­ary Read­ings (HOTP) and oth­er pro­grams with the San Fran­cis­co group PAWA (also known as PAWA, Inc.).  This group is also known as Philip­pine Amer­i­can Writ­ers and Artists, Fil­ipino Amer­i­can Inter­na­tion­al Book Fes­ti­val, Filbookfestival.org. You can con­tact me direct­ly for more information.

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First, she will mod­er­ate Hot Off the Press Lit­er­ary Read­ings at the Fil­ipino Amer­i­can Inter­na­tion­al Book Fes­ti­val at the Koret Audi­to­ri­um, San Fran­cis­co Main Library, 100 Larkin Street, San Fran­cis­co, CA 94102, on Sat­ur­day Octo­ber 12, 2019 at 12:45  pm and at 4 p.m. Cecil­ia will also read from her work at the 12:45 HOTP event.

The read­ers are:
 12:45 — 2 p.m.
Wal­ter Ang, Eliz­a­beth Ann Besa-Quiri­no, Cecil­ia Brainard, Aileen Cassinet­to, EJR David, Cindy Fazzi, Elmer Omar Bas­cos, Grace Talu­san, Alfred A. Yuson, Crisel­da Yabes

4- 5:15 p.m.
Arlene Biala, Jacque­line Chio-Lau­ri, Rin Chu­peco, Melin­da Luisa de Jesus, Ange­lo R. Lacues­ta, Yves Lam­son, Rick Rocamo­ra,  Ric­co Sioso­co,  Leny Strobel

Cecil­ia is also part of Philip­pine Expres­sions Book­shop’s Book Talk, on Sat­ur­day, Octo­ber 26, 2019, 3–6 p.m., at 479 W. Sixth Street, Suite 105, His­toric Arts Dis­trict, San Pedro, CA 90731, RSVP: 310–514-9139.

Cecil­ia will talk about her recent pub­li­ca­tions, the Philip­pine edi­tion of her war nov­el, When the Rain­bow God­dess Wept, and her novel­la Melisande in Paris which is part of the book Please, San Anto­nio! & Melisande in Paris. 

Cecil­ia Manguer­ra Brainard draws inspi­ra­tion from her birth city of Cebu, Philip­pines.  Her three nov­els and numer­ous sto­ries are often set in her myth­i­cal Ubec (Cebu back­wards).  Her first nov­el, When the Rain­bow God­dess Wept, in print for 28 years has been recent­ly reis­sued in the Philip­pines by the Uni­ver­si­ty of San­to Tomas Pub­lish­ing House.

When the Rainbow God­dess Wept (USTPH 2019) is a com­ing of age sto­ry of a young girl in the Philip­pines dur­ing World War Two.  It is pub­lished in the US by the Uni­ver­si­ty of Michi­gan Press and in the Philip­pines by the UST Pub­lish­ing House.

Please, San Anto­nio! & Melisande in Paris (PALH 2018) col­lects two novel­las by Eve La Salle Caram and Cecil­ia Manguer­ra Brainard. Cecilia’s sto­ry in this col­lec­tion focus­es on the back­sto­ry in Paris of French char­ac­ter who appears in her third nov­el, The News­pa­per Wid­ow.

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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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