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Monstress: Stories
by Lysley Tenorio
Vibrant, ironic and often heartbreaking, the eight stories in Lysley Tenorio's debut short story collection, Monstress, are awash in the unmistakable blend of absurdity and fatalism that have blessed Filipino-American literature at least since the publication of Jessica Hagedorn's Dogeaters. For all the outrageous situations and ironic tragedy, however, Tenorio's stories are most noteworthy for the gentle care he takes with his doomed and yearning characters.
In the titular opening story, Lorena Valdez, a B-movie queen in the Philippines who has long since tired of donning monster suits for her director boyfriend's...
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