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Genre: Literary Fiction
About saintmimiLocation: San Francisco, CA Home Region: Age:26 Favorite novels: The English Patient, The Hours, The Namesake Favorite writers: Michael Ondaatje, Madeleine L'Engle, Virginia Woolf Favorite music: Philip Glass, Joni Mitchell Non-noveling interests: Photography, travel, hockey, classical piano, the smell of fresh sawdust, riding on trains and eavesdropping on other people's conversations, hanging out with g-write. |
Joined: octobre 28, 2008 This Year: Official Participant NaNoWriMo History: NaNoWriMo posts: 6 NaNoWriMo buddies: 2
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Brief Author Bio: I grew up in the Philippines before coming Stateside for college in upstate New York (yeah, I wanted to see snow...lots of it). I lived in the Big Apple for a few years before moving out West to mellow out my life. The writing bug I caught from both sides of my family, who love to write short stories, poems, memoirs, essays, etc. Though my parents urged me to go to design school, I never lost the will to write, and write and write. This is my second NaNoWriMo. |
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Synopsis: Cutting Hair for Saints
Apolinario, one of a set of triplets, has always been able to read his sisters' thoughts. As the only inheritor of the legendary Red Hair in his family, he is both feared and revered by the people in his home town. Now living in New York, he is called home to the Philippines when one of his sisters mysteriously goes into a coma. While he is there he meets the sighted daughter of two blind masseuses, an old man afraid of his ghost son's return, and the myths of the family he has tried to forget.
Excerpt: Cutting Hair for Saints
It began the day the gardener’s boy fell on his head and died he was climbing the iba tree picking the small green sour fruit for Cook’s sinigang. Not caring to take off his rubber slippers he slipped on a branch and fell to the paved garden path below. The family waited in the upstairs kitchen eating the soup over rice (still not sour enough according to lola). It was two hours later that the ambulance arrived to take the gardener’s boy away.
