Malaya - by Cinelle Barnes (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"From Cinelle Barnes, author of the memoir Monsoon Mansion, comes a moving and reflective essay collection about finding freedom in America. Out of a harrowing childhood in the Philippines, Cinelle Barnes emerged triumphant. But as an undocumented teenager living in New York, her journey of self-discovery was just beginning. Because she couldn't get a driver's license or file taxes, Cinelle worked as a cleaning lady and a nanny and took other odd jobs--and learned to look over her shoulder, hoping she wouldn't get caught. When she falls in love and marries a white man from the South, Cinelle finds herself trying to adjust to the thorny underbelly of "southern hospitality" while dealing with being a new mother, an immigrant affected by PTSD, and a woman with a brown body in a profoundly white world. From her immigration to the United States, to navigating a broken legal system, to balancing assimilation and a sense of self, Cinelle comes to rely on her resilience and her faith in the human spirit to survive and come of age all over again. Lyrical, emotionally driven, and told through stories both lived and overheard, Cinelle's intensely personal, yet universal, exploration of race, class, and identity redefines what it means to be a woman--and an American--in a divided country."--Provided by publisher.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>From Cinelle Barnes, author of the memoir <i>Monsoon Mansion</i>, comes a moving and reflective essay collection about finding freedom in America.</b></p><p>Out of a harrowing childhood in the Philippines, Cinelle Barnes emerged triumphant. But as an undocumented teenager living in New York, her journey of self-discovery was just beginning.</p><p>Because she couldn't get a driver's license or file taxes, Cinelle worked as a cleaning lady and a nanny and took other odd jobs--and learned to look over her shoulder, hoping she wouldn't get caught. When she falls in love and marries a white man from the South, Cinelle finds herself trying to adjust to the thorny underbelly of "southern hospitality" while dealing with being a new mother, an immigrant affected by PTSD, and a woman with a brown body in a profoundly white world. From her immigration to the United States, to navigating a broken legal system, to balancing assimilation and a sense of self, Cinelle comes to rely on her resilience and her faith in the human spirit to survive and come of age all over again.</p><p>Lyrical, emotionally driven, and told through stories both lived and overheard, Cinelle's intensely personal, yet universal, exploration of race, class, and identity redefines what it means to be a woman--and an American--in a divided country.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"A collection of essays extends and expands on the themes introduced in the author's highly regarded memoir, <i>Monsoon Mansion</i> (2018). Barnes's first book introduced a gifted writer with a compelling story about her life in the Philippines...A sturdy transitional volume that finds Barnes reflecting on her first and anticipating her next." <b>--<i>Kirkus Reviews</i></b></p><p>"Barnes's stirring follow-up to her memoir, <i>Monsoon Mansion</i>...continues her life story by sharing her life in America while undocumented...Barnes's story is unforgettable, and highly relevant to 2019 America." <b>--<i>Publishers Weekly</i></b></p><p>"<i>Malaya</i>, is a book on the uncompromising, unrelenting pursuit of a better life--to be free of fear and worries. These desires are universal. We are all immigrants in constant quest for freedom. Cinelle Barnes, Filipino American author, inspires with her endurance. But, like all stories, freedom is merely the beginning. For Barnes, life continues. This time, Barnes is ready. Her freedom empowers her." <b>--<i>Positively Filipino</i></b></p><p>"<i>Malaya</i> is Barnes's literary path forward, and for the reader, it is literary delight. The essays reflect interwoven threads but each sings with a unique, and effective, style--there's a playfulness of form and chronology that keeps the reader engaged. We are with Barnes when she's scrubbing toilets and working in a laundromat; when she's nannying for a Wall Street family; when she's dodging INS at a hipster cafe in Harlem; when she's navigating white privilege and racism with her in-laws in the Upstate. And in each setting, each essay, through each beautifully crafted line and deftly chosen image, we not only begin to understand her experience better, but our own." <b>--<i>Charleston City Paper</i></b></p><p>"Cinelle Barnes considers how the chaos and discipline of dance kept the disparate parts of her being stitched together." <b>--<i>Longreads</i></b></p><p>"Cinelle Barnes steps into the full power of her voice with <i>Malaya</i>. In this collection of deftly woven and deeply resonant essays, Barnes intertwines past and present as she reflects on the daily realities of those who are undocumented, the healing powers of dance and memoir, and the fears and joys of raising a brown daughter in a country in denial about the depths of its own racism. Told in sharp, luminous prose, <i>Malaya</i> reminds us of how vital this (re)birthing process we call writing truly is. With compassion and conviction, Barnes bears witness to stories that so often go untold--and asserts the possibility of a world where those we love have the freedom to tell their own." <b>--Zeyn Joukhadar, author of <i>The Map of Salt and Stars</i></b></p><p>"In <i>Malaya</i>, Cinelle Barnes asks the essential question: How do we free ourselves? Her essays explore what it means to live authentically as a woman, a person of color, an immigrant, a human being, not in the hands or eyes of others but in her own heart. Barnes tells her story with clarity and honesty and, in doing so, clears a path for the rest of us to follow." <b>--Victoria Loustalot, author of <i>Future Perfect: A Skeptic's Search for an Honest Mystic</i>, <i>Living like Audrey: Life Lessons from the Fairest Lady of All</i>, and <i>This Is How You Say Goodbye: A Daughter's Memoir</i></b></p><p>"I'm sure many readers of <i>Malaya</i> will focus on words like strength, resolve, and pride, but I'm most taken by Barnes's radical deploying of surrender in these essays. The book is neither solipsistic nor rooted in brittle hope. Instead it's a textured meditation on how embodied acceptance and surrender are often the most radical of gestures when it comes to provocative art making." <b>--Kiese Laymon, author of <i>Heavy: An American Memoir</i>, <i>Long Division</i>, and <i>How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America</i></b></p><p>"'I write because I am the last to remember, ' Cinelle Barnes tells us in her essay 'Why I Write Memoir.' <i>Malaya</i> is a sensitive, vibrant book that will help so many of us remember and reflect on the stories we shouldn't forget. Barnes's deft writing crosses gaps in time, understanding, and experience, illuminating important truths about our country and culture while also allowing us to bear witness to her own fight for healing, justice, and belonging. <i>Malaya</i> is a book we need, and Cinelle Barnes is a writer to treasure." <b>--Nicole Chung, author of <i>All You Can Ever Know</i></b></p><br>
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