Ambuscade - Roley, Brian Ascalon
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From the diagnosis of a son's mitochondrial disease to the physical and emotional challenges of caregiving, Pilipino-American poet Brian Ascalon Roley taps into the personal experience of parenting a wheelchair user son and combines it with Philippine horror mythology to create harrowing narratives of a family set in California. Cecilia Manguerra Brainard, award-winning author and publisher says, "Ambuscade by Brian Ascalon Roley transports you into the painful world of a father coping with a son's disability. It is a lament, a rage, and at the same time a love story between a father and his son. This is a wringing read."…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
From the diagnosis of a son's mitochondrial disease to the physical and emotional challenges of caregiving, Pilipino-American poet Brian Ascalon Roley taps into the personal experience of parenting a wheelchair user son and combines it with Philippine horror mythology to create harrowing narratives of a family set in California. Cecilia Manguerra Brainard, award-winning author and publisher says, "Ambuscade by Brian Ascalon Roley transports you into the painful world of a father coping with a son's disability. It is a lament, a rage, and at the same time a love story between a father and his son. This is a wringing read."
Autorenporträt
Brian Ascalon Roley is a writer and professor of Philippine and American descent. He has received fellowships and awards from the National Endowment of the Arts, the Ohio Arts Council, the University of Cambridge, Cornell University, the Djerassi Foundation, Ragdale, the VCCA and others. His widely taught work includes THE LAST MISTRESS OF JOSE RIZAL (Northwestern University Press) and AMERICAN SON: A Novel (W.W. Norton), which was a New York Times Notable Book, Los Angeles Times Best Book, Kiriyama Pacific Rim Prize Finalist, and winner of the Association for Asian American Studies Prose Book Award, among other honors. His fiction, poetry and literary essays have appeared in numerous journals and in anthologies published by Norton (Mixed: An Anthology of Short Fiction on the Multiracial Experience), Penguin (Charlie Chan is Dead 2) and elsewhere, including several bestselling books in the Philippines. He is Professor of English at Miami University of Ohio. More info at www.brianroley.com