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Monsoon mansion : a memoir
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Overview
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.
Publisher
Little A
Subject
/ Barnes, Cinelle Childhood and youth.
/ Mothers and daughters Philippines.
/ Women Philippines Biography.
/ Families Philippines Biography.
/ Coming of age Philippines Biography.
/ Dysfunctional families Philippines Biography.
/ BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
/ FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Dysfunctional Families.
/ Women.
ISBN
9781542046138, 1542046130, 9781542046145, 1542046149
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| Call Number | Copies | Material | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| DS686.616.B37 A3 2018 | 1 | BOOK | AUTOSTORE |
