Out of Cebu : essays and personal prose /

Brainard, Cecilia Manguerra.

Out of Cebu : essays and personal prose / Cecilia Manguerra Brainard. - x, 158 pages : illustrations 24 cm

Out of Cebu collects 28 essays by award-winning author, Cecilia Manguerra Brainard. Many of the essays are about Cebu, Philippines: its history, the places to see in this southern Philippine city, her experiences growing there, and colorful accounts about her mother's family, the Cuencos, a powerful political family in Cebu and the Philippines. There are also travel and food essays, all told from Brainard's unique point of view of a Cebu-born writer now living in the United States. (Source: http://www.amazon.com)

9789715390347

DS 688.C4 / .B731 2012