Kindle Release of Veronica Montes’ Short Story Collection

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.”

 

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