Marissa Tay Praises Brainard’s Magical Years: Memories & Sketches

 

 

 

 

 

Dur­ing these days of Coro­n­avirus, I was par­tic­u­lar­ly hap­py to hear from my col­lege friend, Maris­sa Tay, who sent me her feed­back about my book, Mag­i­cal Years: Mem­o­ries & Sketch­es,. This hard­bound book col­lects sketch­es inspired by my child­hood in Cebu. Maris­sa was my class­mate at Mary­knoll Col­lege in Que­zon City.; we’ve had the chance to recon­nect at class reunions at Toron­to and Las Vegas. Maris­sa is a col­lec­tor of Philip­pine weav­ings and she her­self does weav­ings and artis­tic works using fab­ric. Thank you for your kind com­ments, Marissa.

I was hap­py that my book of sketch­es  touched her as it did oth­er Mary­knollers: Mari­bel Paras, Tina Bor­ja Heit­er, Edna Del Rosario, Lore­ta Cas­tro, Ange­les De Leon, Miri­am Dur­ban Tag­amo­lila, Lina David Ong, among oth­ers. Sala­mat, and keep safe.

From Maris­sa Tay:

I got your won­der­ful book a few days ago.  Thank you so much.  I was so busy unpack­ing my house, I for­got to acknowl­edge receiv­ing it.  But I read it na,  I could relate to some of your mem­o­ries.  In Davao when I was grow­ing up, we played the same fun games. My par­ents brought us on pasyals on week­ends; we made trips to the local library to bor­row books,  vis­it­ed near­by ice-cream shops and bib­ingka­han … slow, easy, uncom­pli­cat­ed life in the province. 

  The one thing we didn’t have in Min­danao, specif­i­cal­ly Davao, were the old Span­ish archi­tec­tur­al church­es and plazas that Cebu, Vigan, and Bacolod have to this day.  When Spain col­o­nized the Philip­pines, they did not touch Min­danao, thus the reset­tle­ment pro­grams of Que­zon and all the pres­i­dents after him. 

   Thanks again.  How spe­cial —  signed and num­bered edi­tion.  When you’re in the East Coast, you know to call me.

~

MAGICAL YEARS: MEMORIES & SKETCHES by Cecil­ia Manguer­ra Brainard
(PALH 2020), 37 pages, book size is 8 x 8, hardbound
ISBN 9780971945890
Spe­cial Lim­it­ed Edi­tion — Each book is signed and num­bered by the artist/author
43 Sketch­es in reed and pen and ink by Cecil­ia Manguer­ra Brainard, (hb) $45.00
Con­tact palhbooks@gmail.com for a copy.

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