Monstress: Stories

Monstress: Stories

<p>“The debut of an electric literary talent. Brilliantly quirky, often moving, always gorgeously told….Bravo for this fabulous American fiction!”<br />—Chang-Rae Lee, <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author of <em>Native Speaker </em></p><p>“A wonderful story collection that’s as wide and rich and complex as the geography it spans.”<br />— Ben Fountain, PEN/Hemingway award-winning author of <em>Brief Encounters with Che Guevera</em></p><p>“Tenorio is a deep and original writer, and <em>Monstress</em> is simply a beautiful book.”<br />—Jessica Hagedorn, author of <em>Dogeaters</em></p><p>A luminous collection of heartbreaking, vivid, startling, and gloriously unique stories set amongst the Filipino-American communities of California and the Philippines, <em>Monstress</em> heralds the arrival of a breathtaking new talent on the literary scene: Lysley Tenorio. Already the worthy recipient of a Pushcart Prize, a Whiting Writer’s Award, and a Stegner Fellowship, Tenorio brilliantly explores the need to find connections, the melancholy of isolation, and the sometimes suffocating ties of family in tales that range from a California army base to a steamy moviehouse in Manilla, to the dangerous false glitter of Hollywood. <br /></p>