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Mayor of the Roses: Stories by Marianne Villanueva [in AsianWeek]

Mayor of the RosesA masterful collection of loosely intertwined short stories from the author of the critically-acclaimed Ginseng and Other Tales from Manila which captures the immigrant life lived in between – not quite at home in the old country, and painfully awkward in the new. From the unflinching title story about a mayor on trial for instigating the gang-rape of a local beauty queen, to the portrait of an abandoned wife in Silicon Valley, to the lives of three children after the death of their Filipina mother, Roses is a startling mix of sadness and hope, disappointment and exploration, of loss and commitment.

Review: “New and Notable Books, AsianWeek, April 7, 2005

Tidbit: Marianne Villanueva was one of our delightful Smithsonian APA Program guests for “Filipino American Literary Writers” on December 8, 2006.

Readers: Adult

Published: 2005

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