Cecilia Manguerra Brainard
Autor/a de When the Rainbow Goddess Wept
Sobre l'autor
Obres de Cecilia Manguerra Brainard
The the Rainbow Goddess Wept 1 exemplars
Magdalena: US Edition 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Making Waves: An Anthology of Writings By and About Asian American Women (1989) — Col·laborador — 144 exemplars
Babaylan: An Anthology of Filipina and Filipina American Writers (2000) — Col·laborador — 48 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Gènere
- female
Membres
Ressenyes
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 25
- També de
- 3
- Membres
- 237
- Popularitat
- #95,614
- Valoració
- 4.1
- Ressenyes
- 16
- ISBN
- 38
When her husband dies in 1909, Ines Maceda inherits his newspaper, which is running out of audience and funds; she soon finds that she’s good at both the money side and the reporting side. The paper gets a scoop about the discovery of the body of a priest who had been missing several months, but any pleasure in Ines’s coup is dampened when her son Andres is imprisoned on suspicion of murdering the priest, whose past turns out to be shadier than imagined. What follows is part detective story and part historical fiction, set in the Philippines seven years after the conclusion of the Philippine-American War (1899-1902) that cemented U.S. occupation of the islands. The mystery elements are competently plotted, and the characters appealing, and there’s a charming long-distance romance, with a hint of another yet to come. The book’s signal virtue, though, is its bighearted look at Filipino culture and society in 1909. With 23 books to her name, Brainard (Magdalena) is hardly a novice, but most of her works have appeared out of small presses (including her own Philippine American Literary House), so she might be a new addition to library collections.
VERDICT An old-fashioned novel isn’t a bad thing when it’s as well done as this one about people growing, loving, and rectifying past mistakes. ~ David Keymer, Cleveland… (més)