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  <title><![CDATA[Mayor Of The Roses: Stories (Miami University Press Fiction Series)]]></title>
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  <original-publication-year type="integer">2005</original-publication-year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Marianne Villanueva]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[I’d previously been perusing the stories in Marianne Villanueva’s Mayor of the Roses, and I have also heard her read different stories from this book at various Bay Area literary venues.<br/><br/>I think this collection is effective in plumbing the particulars of the narrator’s world, and ev...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45556952">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Feb 17 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was just okay.  The prose was well crafted, but the stories left something to be desired.  This is a collection of uneven short stories that ranged from the amazing (Lenox Hill, December 1991) to the unintresting.  Maybe it can all be sumed up by the culture gap.  I did enjoy that some of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14426754">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Wed Dec 19 13:22:24 -0800 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Someday Id like to adapt several stories from this collection into a quiet indie feature. Yes, these portraits are of Filipino Americans falling out of love, but not without a struggle (nor each other). Not since Ben Santos' fiction has contemporary Filipino life in the U.S. been mined with such cla...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10703089">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jun 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think Lynda Barry infused me with a fascination for Filipino culture, so that helped. The title story is pretty brutal, but worth reading. I was less taken with the rest.]]></body>
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