Selected Short Stories by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard released by USTPH

The Uni­ver­si­ty of San­to Tomas Pub­lish­ing House (USTPH) has released SELECTED SHORT STORIES BY CECILIA MANGUERRA BRAINARD, a col­lec­tion of 39 sto­ries. This col­lec­tion will  be released in the US in Sep­tem­ber. The USTPH edi­tion is now avail­able from the UST book­store and from their ven­dors Laza­da and Shopee.

The book includes some of Brainard’s best short sto­ries includ­ing the pop­u­lar: Woman with Horns, Flip Goth­ic, Romeo, and Brainard’s recent sto­ries: The Syr­i­an Doc­tor in Paris, and Melisande in Paris, and more.

The book cov­er was cre­at­ed by not­ed Fil­ipino artist, Felix Mago Miguel.

The book has been praised as follows:

Pow­er­ful, poignant and engross­ing, the Select­ed Short Sto­ries by Cecil­ia Manguer­ra Brainard is an impor­tant work by a major writer. Writ­ten in a poet­ic style rich in imagery, her obser­vant eye’s sub­ject is both transna­tion­al and local, soci­etal and rela­tion­al in the more per­son­al scale of fam­i­ly, friend­ship, love. These sto­ries have an oral qual­i­ty in the best sense of the word, by a mas­ter of the form. ~ Bri­an Ascalon Roley, author of Ambus­cade and Amer­i­can Son, and Pro­fes­sor of Eng­lish, Mia­mi University.

Cecil­ia Manguer­ra Brainard’s short sto­ries cov­er not just the his­to­ry of the Philip­pines – Span­ish and Amer­i­can colo­nial rule, the bloody Mar­cos era, the high price of fight­ing for polit­i­cal and eco­nom­ic free­dom – but also the deeply mov­ing hes­i­ta­tions and com­plex­i­ties of the human heart: the loves and long­ings and loss­es that shape and haunt a life, the sen­su­al­i­ty and desires that rip apart the fab­ric of social life, the intri­ca­cies of girl­hood and female friend­ship, the con­fronta­tion of cul­tures, the lone­li­ness  and courage of Fil­ipino-Amer­i­cans and oth­ers who have left their home­lands and the idea of home. Beau­ti­ful­ly writ­ten, mas­ter­ful­ly craft­ed, these sto­ries are at once heart-break­ing, enter­tain­ing, and pro­found­ly humane — very dif­fi­cult to put down, impos­si­ble to for­get. ~ Reine Arcache Melvin, author of The Betrayed: A Novel

Cecil­ia Brainard’s well-craft­ed sto­ries deal with fic­tion­al Mani­la and Mex­i­co, Intra­muros and Aca­pul­co, Ubec and Cebu. She has the uncan­ny abil­i­ty to enter the skin of her char­ac­ters and give them their sin­gu­lar voic­es. Her Select­ed Sto­ries only affirm what we have long known: that she has already vault­ed into the front rank of the Philip­pines’ best writ­ers fic­tion. Bra­va!” ~ Dan­ton Remo­to, author of River­run, A Novel

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