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The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony (Hardback or Cased Book)
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- Condition
- Binding
- TC
- EAN
- 9780316540322
- ISBN
- 0316540323
- Item Height
- 1.1
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Little Brown & Company
ISBN-10
0316540323
ISBN-13
9780316540322
eBay Product ID (ePID)
19062269820
Product Key Features
Book Title
Mango Tree : a Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2024
Topic
Personal Memoirs, Parenting / Motherhood, Dysfunctional Families
Genre
Family & Relationships, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight
18 Oz
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2023-935645
Reviews
"In seeking to understand the complexity of her mother's life, Tometich reveals the difficulties that many immigrants and multiracial families face as they try to find a way to belong."-- The Washington Post, " The Mango Tree is a story about a life spent focused on finding your place in the world, only to discover yourself instead. To oldest daughters who have raised siblings and those in need of an honest look at the pain and humor in complicated family love, Annabelle Tometich has written the book you've been waiting for."-- Minda Honey, author of The Heartbreak Years, "In reclaiming Josefina from the mug shot and clickbait headlines that followed her arrest, the author opens the door to something even more lasting, and possibly more severe: a daughter's unflinching gaze... [Tometich] writes scene and dialogue with the metronomic precision of a seasoned broadsheet reporter, her ledes and kickers often bearing a sly, precocious slant."-- The New York Times Book Review
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The Washington Post 's Best Books of 2024 Eater's Best Food Books to Read This Spring This "witty, humorous, and heartfelt" (Cinelle Barnes) memoir navigates the tangled branches of Annabelle Tometich's life, from growing up in Florida as the child of a Filipino mother and a deceased white father to her adult life as a med-school-reject-turned-food-critic. When journalist Annabelle Tometich picks up the phone one June morning, she isn't expecting a collect call from an inmate at the Lee County Jail. And when she accepts, she certainly isn't prepared to hear her mother's voice on the other end of the line. However, explaining the situation to her younger siblings afterwards was easy; all she had to say was, "Mom shot at some guy. He was messing with her mangoes." They immediately understood. Answering the questions of the breaking-news reporter--at the same newspaper where Annabelle worked as a restaurant critic--proved more difficult. Annabelle decided to go with a variation of the truth: it was complicated. So begins The Mango Tree , a poignant and deceptively entertaining memoir of growing up as a mixed-race Filipina "nobody" in suburban Florida as Annabelle traces the roots of her upbringing--all the while reckoning with her erratic father's untimely death in a Fort Myers motel, her fiery mother's bitter yearning for the country she left behind, and her own journey in the pursuit of belonging. With clear-eyed compassion and piercing honesty, The Mango Tree is a family saga that navigates the tangled branches of Annabelle's life, from her childhood days in an overflowing house flooded by balikbayan boxes, vegetation, and juicy mangoes, to her winding path from medical school hopeful to restaurant critic. It is a love letter to her fellow Filipino Americans, her lost younger self, and the beloved fruit tree at the heart of her family. But above all, it is an ode to Annabelle's hot-blooded, whip-smart mother Josefina, a woman who made a life and a home of her own, and without whom Annabelle would not have herself.
LC Classification Number
PN4874.T5953A3 2024
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