Monstress, Lysley Tenorio
Monstress, Lysley Tenorio
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Monstress
Stories

Author: Lysley Tenorio

Narrator: Reuben Uy, Chelsea Javier

Unabridged: 6 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 07/07/2020

Synopsis

A luminous collection of heartbreaking, startling, and gloriously unique stories set amongst the Filipino communities of California and the Philippines—now with a new preface by the author  Monstress stands as a landmark of American multicultural short fiction. Lysley Tenorio’s tales are framed by tense, fascinating dichotomies: tenderness and power, the fantastical and the realistic, pop culture and high culture, the American and the Filipino. Tenorio balances these opposites with rare skill, humor, and deep understanding, exploring universal themes—the sometimes-suffocating ties of family, the melancholy of isolation, the need to find connections—with uncommon empathy and breathtaking originality.

About Lysley Tenorio

Lysley Tenorio is the author of the novel The Son of Good Fortune and the story collection Monstress, named a book of the year by the San Francisco Chronicle. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, a Whiting Award, a Stegner fellowship, and the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as residencies from the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and the Bogliasco Foundation. His stories have appeared in the Atlantic, Zoetrope: All-Story, and Ploughshares, and have been adapted for the stage by The American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco and the Ma-Yi Theater in New York City. He is a professor at Saint Mary’s College of California.

Reviews

Goodreads review by luce (cry baby)

| | blog | tumblr | ko-fi | | Monstress is an evocative collection of short stories, most of which are set in the United States and the Philippines. These stories revolve around Filipino and Filipino-American characters as they try acclimatise and make a living outside of their homeland or as they......more

Goodreads review by Elizabeth (Alaska)

I picked this up on a whim because I saw it was stories about Filipinos. My community has a not insignificant minority Filipino population (something over 5% and visible) and I thought this was an opportunity to learn more about their culture. This is not a book to learn anything about their culture......more

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