01922cam a2200337 i 4500 501017527 TxAuBib 20210429120000.0 180501s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781542046138 1542046130 (OCoLC)1033411592 TxAuBib rda Barnes, Cinelle,. Monsoon mansion : a memoir / Cinelle Barnes. First edition. New York : Little A, [2018] xii, 235 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier 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. 20210429. Barnes, Cinelle. Mothers and daughters. Women Philippines. Families Philippines. Philippines History. Philippines Biography. Biographies.