Positively Filipino Book Review of Selected Short Stories by Cecilia Manguera Brainard

George Deoso Reviews Select­ed Short Sto­ries by Cecil­ia Manguer­ra Brainard

https://www.positivelyfilipino.com/magazine/i‑was-upset-review-of-cecilia-manguerra-brainards-selected-short-stories

There is much to rejoice about this feast of a book: the range in terms of form; the weav­ing of past and present between the pages; and that reas­sur­ing sense of being in the hands of a writer—an artist—whose mark tran­scends the bound­aries of time, place, and his­tor­i­cal conflicts.

Brainard’s Select­ed Short Sto­ries make me upset. And I am only hap­py to be upset by her fic­tion. Lit­er­a­ture is noth­ing if it doesn’t shake the core of our being, if it only gives us a kind of bliss.

In the Philip­pines, the book is avail­able from Laza­da and Shopee. In the US, check Ama­zon and Barnes and Noble.

 

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