Monsoon mansion : a memoir
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Published
New York : Little A, [2018].
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 235 pages ; 22 cm
Status
Oliver La Farge - Adult
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Published
New York : Little A, [2018].
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Description
Told with a lyrical, almost-dreamlike voice as intoxicating as the moonflowers and orchids that inhabit this world, Monsoon Mansion is a harrowing yet triumphant coming-of-age memoir exploring the dark, troubled waters of a family's rise and fall from grace in the Philippines. It would take a young warrior to survive it. Cinelle Barnes was barely three years old when her family moved into Mansion Royale, a stately ten-bedroom home in the Philippines. Filled with her mother's opulent social aspirations and the gloriously excessive evidence of her father's self-made success, it was a girl's storybook playland. But when a monsoon hits, her father leaves, and her mother's terrible lover takes the reins, Cinelle's fantastical childhood turns toward tyranny she could never have imagined. Formerly a home worthy of magazines and lavish parties, Mansion Royale becomes a dangerous shell of the splendid palace it had once been. In this remarkable ode to survival, Cinelle creates something magical out of her truth -- underscored by her complicated relationship with her mother. Through a tangle of tragedy and betrayal emerges a revelatory journey of perseverance and strength, of grit and beauty, and of coming to terms with the price of family -- and what it takes to grow up.
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LC Subjects
Autobiographies.
Barnes, Cinelle -- Childhood and youth.
Barnes, Cinelle -- Family.
Barnes, Cinelle.
Biographies.
Coming of age -- Philippines -- Biography.
Dysfunctional families -- Philippines -- Biography.
Families -- Philippines -- Biography.
Mothers and daughters -- Philippines.
Philippines -- Biography.
Philippines -- History -- 20th century.
Women -- Philippines -- Biography.
Barnes, Cinelle -- Childhood and youth.
Barnes, Cinelle -- Family.
Barnes, Cinelle.
Biographies.
Coming of age -- Philippines -- Biography.
Dysfunctional families -- Philippines -- Biography.
Families -- Philippines -- Biography.
Mothers and daughters -- Philippines.
Philippines -- Biography.
Philippines -- History -- 20th century.
Women -- Philippines -- Biography.