Monstress - Stories

A luminous collection of heartbreaking, startling, and gloriously unique stories set amongst the Filipino communities of California and the Philippines--now with a new preface by the author Monstress stands as a landmark of American multicultural short fiction. Lysley Tenorio's tales are framed by tense, fascinating dichotomies: tenderness and power, the fantastical and the realistic, pop culture and high culture, the American and the Filipino. Tenorio balances these opposites with rare skill, humor, and deep understanding, exploring universal themes--the sometimes-suffocating ties of family, the melancholy of isolation, the need to find connections--with uncommon empathy and breathtaking originality.

Product details

• Authors: Lysley Tenorio
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9780063010147
• ISBN: 978-0-06-301014-7
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 14 mm
• Series: Art of the Story
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Women, FICTION: Asian American, DRAMA: Women Authors, FICTION: Short Stories (single author), FICTION: Anthologies (multiple authors), ASIAN & ASIAN AMERICAN: ASIAN AMERICAN LITERATURE, FICTION: LGBTQ+ / Transgender, FICTION: World Literature / American / 21st Century, FICTION: World Literature / Asia (General)