Selected Short Stories by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard collects 39 of the Filipina American author's short fiction. The collection includes some of her best short fiction, including stories that deal with fictional Manila, Mexico, Intramuros, Acapulcop, Ubec, and Cebu.
Brian Ascalon Roley, author of Ambuscade and American Son, and Professor of English, Miami University praises the collection as follows: Powerful, poignant and engrossing, the Selected Short Stories by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard is an important work by a major writer. Written in a poetic style rich in imagery, her observant eye’s subject is both transnational and local, societal and relational in the more personal scale of family, friendship, love. These stories have an oral quality in the best sense of the word, by a master of the form.
Brian Ascalon Roley, author of Ambuscade and American Son, and Professor of English, Miami University praises the collection as follows: Powerful, poignant and engrossing, the Selected Short Stories by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard is an important work by a major writer. Written in a poetic style rich in imagery, her observant eye’s subject is both transnational and local, societal and relational in the more personal scale of family, friendship, love. These stories have an oral quality in the best sense of the word, by a master of the form.