Monstress (Ecco) 

With his debut short story collection, Lysley Tenorio has won acclaim as a "writer of great promise" (Booklist) who "sees everything—the absurd and the tragic, the funny and profound—and delivers stories that are as true to life as any you will ever read" (Ben Fountain, PEN/Hemingway Award-winning author). He'll be appearing at Skylight to read and sign this new collection.

“The stories in Monstress announce the debut of an electric literary talent. Brilliantly quirky, often moving, always gorgeously told, these are tales of big-hearted misfits who yearn for their authentic selves with extraordinary passion and grace. Bravo for this fabulous American fiction!” — Chang-Rae Lee, New York Times bestselling author of Native Speaker and The Surrender

"Spanning several decades and diverse settings, Tenorio's debut story collection is a vibrant survey of Filipino-American immigrant history. The tales are tragic, but Tenorio makes the most of his gift for black humor."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Lysley Tenorio's stories have appeared in The Atlantic, Zoetrope: All-Story, Ploughshares, Manoa, and The Best New American Voices and The Pushcart Prize anthologies. A winner of the Whiting Writer's Award and a former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, he has received fellowships from the University of Wisconsin, Phillips Exeter Academy, Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Born in the Philippines, he currently lives in San Francisco and is an associate professor at Saint Mary's College of California. 

 

Monstress (Paperback)

By Lysley Tenorio

$13.99

ISBN-13: 9780062059567
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Ecco Press, 1/2012

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"Monstress" is a collection of heartbreaking, vivid, original stories set amongst the Filipino-American communities of California and the Philippines by a breathtaking new talent--a winner of a Pushcart Prize and a Whiting Writer's Award.

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