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Clarissa Trinidad Gonzalez

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Born

in Manila, Philippines

October 31

Website

https://www.clarissatgonzalez.com/

Genre

Magical Realism, Gothic, Fiction

Influences

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Isabel Allende, Jean Rhys, Raymond Chandler

Member Since

November 2023

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Clarissa Trinidad Gonzalez was born and raised in Manila, where she grew up steeped in her family’s colourful personalities and stranger-than-fiction stories.

She worked in the advertising industry, honing her craft as a copywriter, and later became Associate Creative Director. She spent a good part of her twenties trekking around the Philippines, sampling regional food, and experiencing the joie de vivre and hospitality of her fellow Filipinos from Batanes to Mindanao.

She moved to Canada in the mid-nineties and worked as a technical designer for a Canadian retailer. She now works as a communications professional. She studied creative writing at the University of Toronto and published some poetry in Variety Crossing journal, as well as onli ...more

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Clarissa Trinidad Gonzalez and 3 other people liked Susan D. Lewin's review of My MacArthur: "This book ticked none of the typical genres that I usually pick up--but I read it in record time. An easy characterization would be "historical romance," but it defies that with its in-depth character development and deep dives into history and place" Read more of this review »
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Clarissa Trinidad Gonzalez liked an answer from Kim Echlin: Where did you get the idea for your most recent book? Great question--It began more than a decade ago. Curiously, I was volunteering at a school in Honduras with a woman who is an independent documentary producer. As we were cleaning a supply cupboard, she told me about a piece she was working on in The See Kim’s answer. Kim Echlin
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