Title: Vigan and other stories
Description: In this, her third collection of short stories, the award-winning author Cecilia Manguerra Brainard shows an uncanny talent for speaking in varied voices that bridge time and place: she is at home in Vigan, the mythical Ubec (Cebu), Sagada, Manila, Cusco, Peru, Calcutta, Chartres, California, bringing each location alive with loving detail. She speaks as a school girl, an older woman, a love-struck boy, a stolen child, an underground revolutionary. She writes of her own family and childhood with love and sadness and a deep sense of humanity. Most charming? “Meeting Che Guevara”, which starts out “I was nineteen when I met Che Guevara
Subjects: Philippines, Philippine, Filipino, Philippine American, fiction, short stories, literature
Places: Cebu, Manila, Ubec
People: Cecilia Manguerra Brainard