Of Love and Other Lemons
by Katrina Stuart Santiago
Description
Of Love and Other Lemons is a collection that plays with the form of the personal essay, turning it on its head, insisting on the we versus the i, the distant versus the familiar, even as it can only be about the persona/l. As such it is honest but impersonal, particularly of one but speaking of (if not for) the other, creative nonfiction premised on what remains fictional for women on this side of the third world. Here are, and ultimately, essays about being raised a girl in Manila, feminist in the academe, woman struggling with/in the silences and noise of nation everyday.
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“Santiago peels back the smugness of middle-class feminism so slowly you feel her priming herself for a vulnerable search for how women love, fight, and after all of it, survive. In this situation, she is no longer the ninja star for which my forehead could be a target, but someone, as she presses, who is with us in womanhood. While our ideologies may clash, and while she continues to debate within herself, the book asks we forego that. She argues that words come into existence when they are relevant, and so if there is no Filipino word sisterhood, then at least there is this book.” / Mara Coson, author of Aliasing
“This is a book that one can imagine reading while on a train, or at the airport waiting for a flight. It is, as the author explains, essays written in medias res — a book of contradictions that speaks of both disappointment and hope, that questions yet affirms, that de-familiarizes what we think of as the “everyday.” / Joi Barrios, author of Prince Charming at Iba Pang Nobelang Romantiko (Prince Charming and other Romantic Novelettes)
“Scholarly yet poetic - and wonderfully articulate - this book, as its subject has been famous for doing, unashamedly multitasks: It expands your mind and pumps up your heart while it clogs your throat and wrings out a tear from your eye.” / Tweet Sering, author of Astigirl and Wander Girl
Author Biography
Katrina Stuart Santiago is a writer of the essay in its various permutations, from art and theater reviews to popular iconographies, from political commentary to creative non-fiction. She’s written for both mainstream and independent publications, in print and online. Her role as critic has fueled her activism, which cuts across issues of cultural labor, systemic dysfunctions, and institutional crises. She teaches writing and criticism at the College of Saint Benilde-School of Design and the Arts, and has been writing at katrinasantiago.com since 2008.
Everything's Fine Inc.
Everything's Fine is a small independent press based in Manila that seeks to build a community around practices that will make publishing and bookmaking kinder and more sustainable for local authors. By treating our authors as partners, and operating with transparency throughout the bookmaking process, we hope to create the best conditions for continued creativity and productivity. Founded in 2019, we aim to publish well-made books with ambitious and thought-provoking content. As such, we choose our publications and book projects thoughtfully, keeping in mind not just what the reader seeks, but how publications can perhaps contribute to making a better world possible.
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- Publisher Everything's Fine Inc.
- Publication Date November 2020
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9786219622226
- Publication Country or regionPhilippines
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 8.25 USD
- Pages136
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusUnpublished
- Copyright Year2020
- Page size19 x 13 cm
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