Interview: ‘Mango Bride’ Creator Illuminates ‘Multi-Faceted’ Filipino Diaspora
Novelist Marivi Soliven, writer of "The Mango Bride." (Nancy Kwak)
Creator Marivi Soliven's first book, The Mango Bride (NAL Trade, 2013), try an in depth, extremely human beings portrait of two completely different ladies from Manila exactly who dare, each inside her own ways, numerous presumptions about immigration into the united reports of the usa. It really is a tale of this Filipino diaspora, the distinct features and problems of deciding wearing a land that is foreign the way we establish house, additionally the tips that haunt a household from 1 generation to another location.
Asia weblog spoke with all the writer about their publication, their individual changeover through the Phillipines to The usa, in addition to real-life mango brides only ahead of their look at a meet up with the publisher occasion paid by Asia culture's Philippines heart in Manila nowadays, Monday, July 29.