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Monsoon mansion : a memoir / Cinelle Barnes. by Barnes, Cinelle. Little A, 2018. Call #: 959.9048 B261m Subjects Barnes, Cinelle.   Barnes, Cinelle -- Childhood and youth.   Barnes, Cinelle -- Family.   Mothers and daughters -- Philippines.   Women -- Philippines -- Biography.   Families -- Philippines -- Biography.   Coming of age -- Philippines -- Biography.   Dysfunctional families -- Philippines -- Biography.   Philippines -- History -- 20th century.   Philippines -- Biography. ISBN:  9781542046138 (hc.) Edition:  1st ed. Description:  xii, 235 p. ; 22 cm. Contents:  Garden party -- Orchids in the morning -- Falling -- Common enemy -- Elma -- Gilded -- Forty days -- Mama, come back -- Desert of his mind -- Elvis face -- Jeepney joyride -- Creatures, great and small -- Library -- Aqua vitae -- Woman at the well -- Sleep now -- Election day -- Monsoon manifesto -- Not water, but whiskey -- No fisher of men -- Millennium -- the season of the Sun. Summary:  Told with a lyrical, almost-dreamlike voice as intoxicating as the moonflowers and orchids that inhabit this world, Monsoon Mansion is a harrowing yet triumphant coming-of-age memoir exploring the dark, troubled waters of a family's rise and fall from grace in the Philippines. It would take a young warrior to survive it. Cinelle Barnes was barely three years old when her family moved into Mansion Royale, a stately ten-bedroom home in the Philippines. Filled with her mother's opulent social aspirations and the gloriously excessive evidence of her father's self-made success, it was a girl's storybook playland. But when a monsoon hits, her father leaves, and her mother's terrible lover takes the reins, Cinelle's fantastical childhood turns toward tyranny she could never have imagined. Formerly a home worthy of magazines and lavish parties, Mansion Royale becomes a dangerous shell of the splendid palace it had once been. In this remarkable ode to survival, Cinelle creates something magical out of her truth--underscored by her complicated relationship with her mother. Through a tangle of tragedy and betrayal emerges a revelatory journey of perseverance and strength, of grit and beauty, and of coming to terms with the price of family--and what it takes to grow up. Genre:  Memoirs. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Halifax North Memorial Public Library Adult Nonfiction 959.9048 B261m Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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