Monstress

<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>