Monstress

“The debut of an electric literary talent. Brilliantly quirky often moving always gorgeously told….Bravo for this fabulous American fiction!”—Chang-Rae Lee New York Times bestselling author of Native Speaker “A wonderful story collection that’s as wide and rich and complex as the geography it spans.”— Ben Fountain PEN/Hemingway award-winning author of Brief Encounters with Che Guevera“Tenorio is a deep and original writer and Monstress is simply a beautiful book.”—Jessica Hagedorn author of DogeatersA luminous collection of heartbreaking vivid startling and gloriously unique stories set amongst the Filipino-American communities of California and the Philippines Monstress 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.