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Barnes, Cinelle.
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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.
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Barnes, Cinelle.
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.
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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.
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