{"product_id":"monstress-book-lysley-tenorio-9780062059567","title":"Monstress","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"The debut of an electric literary talent. Brilliantly quirky, often moving, always gorgeously told....Bravo for this fabulous American fiction!\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e --Chang-Rae Lee, New York Times bestselling author of Native Speaker\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A wonderful story collection that's as wide and rich and complex as the geography it spans.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e -- Ben Fountain, PEN\/Hemingway award-winning author of Brief Encounters with Che Guevera\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Tenorio is a deep and original writer, and Monstress is simply a beautiful book.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e --Jessica Hagedorn, author of Dogeaters\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49543163511057,"sku":"GOR010330715","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49963960926481,"sku":"CIN0062059564G","price":5.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50159370666257,"sku":"CIN0062059564VG","price":5.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50343256195345,"sku":"CIN0062059564A","price":5.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":50998983164177,"sku":"NIN9780062059567","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0062059564.jpg?v=1750737204","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/monstress-book-lysley-tenorio-9780062059567","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}