Mayor of the roses
Subtitle: stories
By: Marianne Villanueva.
Series: Miami University Press fiction series
Publisher: Miami University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Oxford, Ohio
Language: eng
Number of pages: 181
Subjects: Filipino Americans -- Fiction; Philippines -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "In this collection, award-winning writer Marianne Villanueva writes of the contrary beauty, ugliness, and violence of her native land, the Philippines, as well as of the myriad contradictions of immigrant life in the new landscapes of America. In the title story, a Filipina-American emigrant living in Silicon Valley tries to make sense of her native country by following the trial of a provincial mayor accused of gang raping a teenage school girl, a "gift" from his nephew. In the tropical Gothic story, "Rufino," the narrator learns of the death of her family's driver who has lived for lonely decades "caged" above their garage.

From the heart-breaking "Infected" to the brutal "Sutil" Villanueva brilliantly blends past and present in a seamless undercurrent of emotion and longing."--Jacket.