03109cam a2200457 i 4500 1847040566 TxAuBib 20250107120000.0 180501s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781542046138 1542046130 9781542046145 1542046149 (OCoLC)1033411592 TxAuBib rda Barnes, Cinelle, author. Monsoon mansion : a memoir / by Cinelle Barnes. First edition. New York : Little A, [2018] ©2018. xii, 235 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Garden party -- Orchids in the morning -- Falling -- Common enemy -- Elma -- Gilded -- Forty days -- Mama, come back -- Desert of his mind -- Elvis face -- Jeepney joyride -- Creatures, great and small -- Library -- Aqua vitae -- Woman at the well -- Sleep now -- Election day -- Monsoon manifesto -- Not water, but whiskey -- No fisher of men -- Millennium -- the season of the Sun. Told with a lyrical, almost-dreamlike voice as intoxicating as the moonflowers and orchids that inhabit this world, Monsoon Mansion is a harrowing yet triumphant coming-of-age memoir exploring the dark, troubled waters of a family's rise and fall from grace in the Philippines. It would take a young warrior to survive it. Cinelle Barnes was barely three years old when her family moved into Mansion Royale, a stately ten-bedroom home in the Philippines. Filled with her mother's opulent social aspirations and the gloriously excessive evidence of her father's self-made success, it was a girl's storybook playland. But when a monsoon hits, her father leaves, and her mother's terrible lover takes the reins, Cinelle's fantastical childhood turns toward tyranny she could never have imagined. Formerly a home worthy of magazines and lavish parties, Mansion Royale becomes a dangerous shell of the splendid palace it had once been. In this remarkable ode to survival, Cinelle creates something magical out of her truth--underscored by her complicated relationship with her mother. Through a tangle of tragedy and betrayal emerges a revelatory journey of perseverance and strength, of grit and beauty, and of coming to terms with the price of family--and what it takes to grow up. 20250107. Barnes, Cinelle. Barnes, Cinelle. Childhood and youth. Barnes, Cinelle. Family. Mothers and daughters Philippines. Women Philippines Biography. Families Philippines Biography. Coming of Age Philippines Biography. Dysfunctional families Philippines Biography. Philippines History 20th century. Philippines Biography. Autobiographies. Nonfiction. local TXKPL