{"id":5300,"date":"2005-04-07T11:06:05","date_gmt":"2005-04-07T15:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=5300"},"modified":"2015-08-17T10:55:44","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T14:55:44","slug":"mayor-of-the-roses-stories-by-marianne-villanueva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/mayor-of-the-roses-stories-by-marianne-villanueva\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor of the Roses: Stories by Marianne Villanueva [in AsianWeek]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2005\/04\/Mayor-of-the-Roses.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-30960\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2005\/04\/Mayor-of-the-Roses.jpg\" alt=\"Mayor of the Roses\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a>A masterful collection of loosely intertwined short stories from the author of the critically-acclaimed <em>Ginseng and Other Tales from Manila <\/em>which captures the immigrant life lived in between \u2013 not quite at home in the old country, and painfully awkward in the new. From the unflinching title story\u00a0about a mayor on trial for instigating the gang-rape of a local beauty queen, to the portrait of an abandoned wife in Silicon Valley, to the lives of three children after the death of their Filipina mother, <em>Roses <\/em>is a startling mix of sadness and hope, disappointment and exploration, of loss and commitment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/08\/asianweek-2005-04-07-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;New and Notable Books, <em>AsianWeek<\/em>, April 7, 2005<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tidbit<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/anthropologist.wordpress.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Marianne Villanueva <\/a>was one of our delightful Smithsonian APA Program guests for &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/apanews.si.edu\/2006\/12\/08\/filipino-american-literary-writers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Filipino American Literary Writers<\/a>&#8221; on December 8, 2006.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2005<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5301\" title=\"Mayor of the Roses\" src=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/08\/mayor-of-the-roses.jpg\" alt=\"Mayor of the Roses\" width=\"125\" height=\"199\" \/>A masterful collection of loosely intertwined short stories from the author of the critically-acclaimed <em>Ginseng and Other Tales from Manila <\/em>which captures the immigrant life lived in between \u2013 not quite at home in the old country, and painfully awkward in the new. From the unflinching title story about a mayor on trial for instigating the gang-rape of a local beauty queen, to the portrait of an abandoned wife in Silicon Valley, to the lives of three children after the death of their Filipina mother, <em>Roses <\/em>is a startling mix of sadness and hope, disappointment and exploration, of loss and commitment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/08\/asianweek-2005-04-07-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;New and Notable Books, <em>AsianWeek<\/em>, April 7, 2005<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2005<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,1511,1326,6535,7,137],"tags":[89,3598,83,6608,58,10,11,25,3752,3753,28,29],"class_list":["post-5300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-fiction","category-filipinao","category-filipinao-american","category-repost","category-short-stories","category-southeast-asian-american","tag-anthology-collection","tag-asianweek","tag-assimilation","tag-bookdragon","tag-coming-of-age","tag-family","tag-friendship","tag-immigration","tag-marianne-villanueva","tag-mayor-of-the-roses","tag-politics","tag-race-racism"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Mayor of the Roses: Stories by Marianne Villanueva [in AsianWeek] - BookDragon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/mayor-of-the-roses-stories-by-marianne-villanueva\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mayor of the Roses: Stories by Marianne Villanueva [in AsianWeek] - BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A masterful collection of loosely intertwined short stories from the author of the critically-acclaimed Ginseng and Other Tales from Manila which captures the immigrant life lived in between \u2013 not quite at home in the old country, and painfully awkward in the new. 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