Philippine Edition of Cecilia Brainard’s novel, When the Rainbow Goddess Wept

Right now I’m copy edit­ing the Philip­pine Edi­tion of my first nov­el, When the Rain­bow God­dess Wept, which will be released by the Uni­ver­si­ty of San­to Tomas Pub­lish­ing House in 2019.  The nov­el which was first pub­lished as Song of Yvonne (New Day 1991), then lat­er as When the Rain­bow God­dess Wept (Dutton/Penguin, 1994). Fur­ther it was picked up by the Uni­ver­si­ty of Michi­gan Press (1999), and a Turk­ish edi­tion was pub­lished 2001.

The nov­el remains in print and eas­i­ly avail­able in hard copy and kin­dle from Ama­zon.  Philip­pine Expres­sions and oth­er book­shops also car­ry this nov­el.

From Asso­ci­at­ed Press:

“When the Rain­bow God­dess Wept by Cecil­ia Brainard is the tear­ful, sel­dom-told sto­ry of the Japan­ese inva­sion of the Philip­pines dur­ing World War II as seen through the eyes of a young Fil­ipino girl. The many hard­ships that 9‑year-old Yvonne Macaraig and her fam­i­ly are faced with teach her the val­ue of hope and endurance … Brainard’s won­der­ful nov­el shows how war brings out the best and the worst in peo­ple as it describes both the atroc­i­ties and the hero­ics that befall her char­ac­ters. The novel’s theme, the vast cost of war on the human spir­it is illus­trat­ed well by Yvonne’s trag­ic loss of inno­cence. In the words of her grand­fa­ther, Lolo Peping: ‘Before man sinned, he was inno­cent. Man’s orig­i­nal sin wasn’t eat­ing the for­bid­den fruit; it was Cain’s mur­der of his broth­er.’”