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Kindle Release of Veronica Montes’ Short Story Collection

August 25, 2020 by admin Leave a Comment

My pub­lish­ing house PALH  (Philip­pine Amer­i­can Lit­er­ary House) announces the release of

Bene­dic­ta Takes Wing and Oth­er Sto­ries, by Veron­i­ca Montes is now avail­able in Kin­dle < https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08GM9BKSD>

It is also avail­able in paper­back and hard­cov­er from Amazon.

Bene­dic­ta Takes Wing and Oth­er Sto­ries is the debut col­lec­tion of short fic­tion by Fil­ipino Amer­i­can writer Veron­i­ca Montes. In these four­teen sto­ries, Montes explores the intri­cate work­ings of Fil­ipino fam­i­lies as they strug­gle to define their place in the world. Two Amer­i­can-born sis­ters bum­ble their way through an unfor­get­table night at a Mani­la night­club famed for its staff of midgets. The moth­er of leg­endary war­rior Gabriela Silang has been lost to his­to­ry, but here she is giv­en voice to share her sto­ry. A lone­ly, mid­dle-aged wom­an’s life changes when she stum­bles on a sur­ro­gate son and togeth­er they cre­ate a makeshift family.

“Veron­i­ca Montes limn the lives of Fil­ipino fam­i­lies,” writes author Ben­i­to Ver­gara, “with wit, sim­mer­ing fury, and an abun­dance of gen­eros­i­ty. With her sharp eye for the telling detail, she depicts the grief and every­day joy hand­ed down as inher­i­tance, the affec­tions and denials the bind Fil­ipino fam­i­lies together.”

 

Tags: Philip­pine, Fil­ipino, Fil­ipino Amer­i­can, Philip­pine Amer­i­can, lit­er­a­ture, book, short sto­ries, Pinay, #goodreads

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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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