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Vigan and Other Stories
by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard
In this, her third collection of short stories, Cecilia Manguerra Brainard shows an uncanny talent for speaking in varied voices that bridge time and place: she is at home in Vigan, the mythical Ubec (Cebu), Sagada, Manila, Cusco, Peru, Calcutta, Chartres, California, bringing each location alive with loving detail. She speaks as a...
Magdalena is a powerful novel about the lasting effects war has on people’s lives. Playing with time and point of view, multi-award author, Cecilia Manguerra Brainard, explores the loves and secrets of three generations of women in the Philippines from the time of the Philippine American War, World War II, and Vietnam War. The novel...
The Black Man in the Forest: Short Story (Short Fiction)
by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard
Set in the Philippines in 1901 during the Philippine American War, Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's short story The Black Man in the Forest is about a Filipino general and his ragtag group of men who come across an American Buffalo Soldier. The encounter allows the battle-weary old general to find his humanity once again. This story is part...
Growing Up Filipino II: More Stories for Young Adults
by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard
Edited by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard GROWING UP FILIPINO II: MORE STORIES FOR YOUNG ADULTS is the second volume of the Growing Up Filipino series by PALH. In this collection of 27 short stories, Filipino and Filipino American writers explore the universal challenges and experiences of Filipino teens after the historic events of 9/11. The...
Out of Cebu collects 28 essays by award-winning author, Cecilia Manguerra Brainard. Many of the essays are about Cebu, Philippines: its history, the places to see in this southern Philippine city, her experiences growing there, and colorful accounts about her mother's family, the Cuencos, a powerful political family in Cebu and the...
This highly-acclaimed novel, set in mythical Ubec, Philippines during World War II, is a lyrical portrayal of a girl's blossoming into young womanhood. Publishers Weekly notes that "the strengthening of the national spirit; the loss of innocence in two generations -- these themes are explored by the author... with persuasive conviction...
FOREWORD Review: While at first glance The Newspaper Widow seems like a standard historical mystery, that couldn’t be farther from the truth. Cecilia Manguerra Brainard’s novel is full and complex, overflowing with textured, fully realized characters who drive the story on every page. Ines Maceda, the “newspaper widow,” aims to clear...
Growing Up Filipino: Stories for Young Adults is the highly-acclaimed collection of stories about the experience of growing up Filipino. Emerging and established award-winning writers are the authors of this fine collection of 29 stories about what it means to be young and Filipino in the Philippines and in the United States. Filipinos...
This is another book by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard, internationally celebrated and award-winning author and editor. Cecilia’s Diary: 1962-1969, is a faithful record of Brainard’s days as a young colegiala in the Philippines. It is refreshing and funny, replete with references to a religious upbringing and a privileged lifestyle. The...
Categories: All Biographies & Memoirs; All Children's Lit
Woman with Horns and Other Stories
by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard
"Woman With Horns and Other Stories" is the first collection by award-winning author, Cecilia Manguerra Brainard. The book has a dozen fascinating stories that take the readers back to a Philippine past, historical and contemporaneous, against a backdrop of legend and superstition. In these stories, the East and the West meet, and it's...
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