The Mango Bride by Marivi Soliven sounds like a book I’m going to really enjoy. I love stories of people, especially women from a different culture trying to make a life in America. I love the cover on this one as well – it’s very pretty. Needless to say I didn’t have time right now to read this one as it’s hard enough keeping up to what I am reading but I sure did want to share a copy with my readers. Check out what the book is about and then you can enter to win a copy for yourself!
About The Mango Bride (from Marivi’s website)
TWO WOMEN, TWO CULTURES AND THE FIGHT TO FIND A NEW LIFE IN AMERICA, DESPITE THE SECRETS OF THE PAST…
Banished by her wealthy Filipino family in Manila, Amparo Guerrero travels to Oakland, California, to forge a new life. Although her mother labels her life in exile a diminished one, Amparo believes her struggles are a small price to pay for freedom…
Like Amparo, Beverly Obejas – an impoverished Filipina waitress – forsakes Manila and comes to Oakland as a mail order bride in search of a better life. Yet even in the land of plenty, Beverly fails to find the happiness and prosperity she envisioned.
As Amparo works to build the immigrant’s dream, she becomes entangled in the chaos of Beverly’s immigrant nightmare. Their unexpected collision forces both of them to make terrible choices and confront a life-changing secret, but through it all they hold fast to family in all its enduring and surprising transformations.
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About Marivi Soliven (from Marivi’s blog)
Marivi Soliven has taught writing workshops at the University of California, San Diego and at the University of the Philippines. Her writing first gained recognition with silver medals for children’s fiction at the 1992 and 1993 Palanca Awards for Literature. In 1998 her short story “Beaux Café” won the Philippines Free Press Grand Prize for fiction. Suddenly Stateside, a collection of essays about the Filipino diaspora and the immigrant experience was an instant bestseller when it was first released in Manila in 2002. It has gone through multiple printings and is now available in both Kindle and Nook digital editions at Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble.com.
Short stories and essays from Soliven’s 15 books have appeared in Philippine anthologies and textbooks on creative writing. Other essays and flash fiction have been featured in Where Are You From? An Anthology of Asian American Writing (Oregon) and The Journal of Post Colonial Studies (0hio). Her short story, “Talunang Manok,” was adapted for a short film in December 2011.
In 2012, Soliven won a spot in the highly coveted Hedgebrook’s Writers in Residence program, one of 41 fellows chosen from a field of 1,000 applicants. The grant provided her with a two week writing retreat at the Hedgebrook estate on Whidbey Island in 2012, in the company of other writers, most notably Gloria Steinem.
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GIVEAWAY DETAILS (US only)
I have one copy of The Mango Bride by Marivi Soliven to share with my US readers. To enter…
- For 1 entry leave me a comment entering the giveaway.
- For 2 entries follow my blog. If you already do let me know and I’ll pass the extra entry on to you as well.
- Tweet, share on Facebook, or blog for 3 entries.
This giveaway is open to US residents only (no PO boxes) and I will draw for the winner on June 1/13. Good luck!
Dont count me in but this is just up my street. Will be keeping an eye out for this one.
Haven’t read a book about Filipinas before and would like to win this one,
Haven’t read a book about Filipinas before and would like to win this one,I’m a follower and your blog is on my blog’s bloglist.
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I love the book description. The plot sounds like one of those “can’t put me down…don’t you dare stop reading now…you know you can’t wait to see what happens next” books.
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I enjoy novels about immigrants to America. thanks for the giveaway.
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This novel sounds captivating and special. Thanks.I subscribe via e-mail.
I am interested in this wonderful story. Thanks for this great giveaway. I am an e-mail subscriber.
The Mango Bride looks good, great giveaway 🙂
This sounds like a great read. I love reading abut women who come to America to find a better life and the strugles they face and over come. Would love to read this. I tweet this and posted on facebook also follow you on facebook. Thank you.
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Love the sound of this story and the struggle to find new lives in America. Thanks for hosting the giveaway, I’d love to win a copy.
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I work with several people of Philippine descent so this would be fantastic to read.
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Just the fact that the word “mango” is in the title catches my interest! I love mangoes, coupled with a great woman character and I’m in! I follow your blog and tweeted about it, too 😀
This book looks especially fascinating, as I’m unfamiliar with the author and always like finding new writers to follow!
I do follow your blog AND have shared this on Facebook.
Thank you so much! Hoping to win this book!
I love reading about immigrants coming to the U.S. from all over the world but having read about
Filipinas yet.
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This sounds very interesting. I have family in the Phillipines. I would really love the chance to win this book. I am also a follower and shared this on my Facebook page.
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I am a follower.
I also enjoy stories of immigrants from other cultures.
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The book reminds me a little of Shanghai Girls, which I loved.
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Would love to read the book. Sounds great. I follow by e-mail.
This is a beautiful cover and sounds like a good story.
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I really like the idea of a book where you learn about other cultures and seeing a *clash* sounds very interesting
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I like the sounds of this one;thanks for the chance to win. I’m an email follower. nanze55(at)hotmail(dot)com
The Mango Bride sounds like a book i would enjoy reading!!
thank you for this giveaway!!
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This looks great! I tend to enjoy books that have the words “daughter,” “wife,” or “bride” in them.
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This looks like a great book and I would love to win it. I follow you via email and GFC.
sounds like an interesting book.
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Thanks for this amazing giveaway! This book sounds great and I would love to win it!
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This sounds like something I’d love to read.
Beautiful cover, and it sounds like a beautiful emotional story!
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Sounds like a lovely read. I also like to read about different cultures and their experience with America.
Very intrigued by the summary! Thanks for the chance to win!
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