TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fres-Felix, Maria L. M.
TI  - Making straight circles: short story collection 
SN  - 9715424376
AV  - PS 9993.F776  .M289 2004
PY  - 2004///
PB  - University of the Philippines Press
KW  - Short stories, Philippine
N2  -  a bejeweled corpse found buried in the Payatas landslide...    The title is from a line by one of Fres-Felix's funniest people, brogi di Pogi, karate teacher. Still shocked from having been kicked in the face by one of his pubescent pupils, he sputters : "Ladies, form a straight circle!"    In the words of her mentor, Palanca Hall-of-Fame awardee Butch Dalisay: "Dada Fres-Felix's stories are rich with the details and realities of Filipino urban middle-class life-sometimes sumptuous, often disturbing, always engaging - which she approaches with droll humor, and a deep empathy which comes not only from a familiarity with her subjects, but an artist's appreciation of human frailty.";  a teenaged girl being pressured by her mother into getting a nose job;  two middle-class matrons staking out their much younger, vampy mother-in-law; This delightful first book by an award-winning author who used to be a banker, presents an interesting gallery of characters : A down-and-out hairdresser caught in the siege of Malañang by the pro-Erap crowd
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