Monsoon mansion : a memoir / Cinelle Barnes.
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SoundPublisher: Grand Haven, Michigan : Brilliance Audio, [2018]Copyright date: ℗2017Copyright date: ©2018Description: 7 CDs (approximately 9 hr., 3 min.) : digital ; 12 cmContent type: spoken word Media type: audio Carrier type: audio discISBN: 9781543643831; 1543643833Subject(s): Barnes, Cinelle | Barnes, Cinelle -- Childhood and youth | Barnes, Cinelle -- Family | Mothers and daughters -- Philippines | Women -- Philippines -- Biography | Families -- Philippines -- Biography | Coming of age -- Philippines -- Biography | Dysfunctional families -- Philippines -- Biography | Philippines -- History -- 20th century | Philippines -- BiographyGenre/Form: Autobiographies. | Audiobooks. DDC classification: 959.904/8 | B Performed by Cinelle Barnes.Summary: Cinelle Barnes was barely three years old when her family moved into Mansion Royale, a stately ten-bedroom home in the Philippines. Filled with her mother's opulent social aspirations and the gloriously excessive evidence of her father's self-made success, it was a girl's storybook playland. But when a monsoon hits, her father leaves, and her mother's terrible lover takes the reins, Cinelle's fantastical childhood turns toward tyranny she could never have imagined. Formerly a home worthy of magazines and lavish parties, Mansion Royale becomes a dangerous shell of the splendid palace it had once been. In this remarkable ode to survival, Cinelle creates something magical out of her truth--underscored by her complicated relationship with her mother. Through a tangle of tragedy and betrayal emerges a revelatory journey of perseverance and strength, of grit and beauty, and of coming to terms with the price of family--and what it takes to grow up.
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Cinelle Barnes was barely three years old when her family moved into Mansion Royale, a stately ten-bedroom home in the Philippines. Filled with her mother's opulent social aspirations and the gloriously excessive evidence of her father's self-made success, it was a girl's storybook playland. But when a monsoon hits, her father leaves, and her mother's terrible lover takes the reins, Cinelle's fantastical childhood turns toward tyranny she could never have imagined. Formerly a home worthy of magazines and lavish parties, Mansion Royale becomes a dangerous shell of the splendid palace it had once been. In this remarkable ode to survival, Cinelle creates something magical out of her truth--underscored by her complicated relationship with her mother. Through a tangle of tragedy and betrayal emerges a revelatory journey of perseverance and strength, of grit and beauty, and of coming to terms with the price of family--and what it takes to grow up.
Performed by Cinelle Barnes.
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