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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony - Annabelle Tometich[/quote]

I went to a reading with her (I live in Florida) and she was delightful. I bought her book but haven't read it yet. What do you think?[/quote]

The writing is great, it might start off a little slow but picks up after a while and doesnt let up. There's a lot of hard hitting stuff (growing up biracial, chaotic childhood, untimely deaths, immigrant Filipina single mom struggles) but all narrated with a deft, wry and somewhat humorous tone. A lot of memoirs in that genre tend to focus on the childhood trauma alone (understandably) but here, she also lays out why her mother was the way she was with grace and empathy. What it must have been for her mother - intelligent and resourceful but continuously undermined because of who she was - an immigrant POC and a woman.

I read a lot of memoirs - celebrity, childhood, immigrant sub genres and this was one of the best I have read in recent times, highly recommended.[/quote]

Thanks - sounds amazing. [/quote]

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