Banana Heart Summer : A Novel

from bsittig

Melinda Bobis tells the haunting story of a twelve year old girl living in poverty in a small village in the Philippines. Nenita is a warm, loving girl who is abused by her mother. The mother married outside her class when she became pregnant with Nenita and resents the shame brought into her lif...

from bsittig

Melinda Bobis tells the haunting story of a twelve year old girl living in poverty in a small village in the Philippines. Nenita is a warm, loving girl who is abused by her mother. The mother married outside her class when she became pregnant with Nenita and resents the shame brought into her lif...

from thornton37814

This is one of the strangest books I've read recently. It is well-crafted in a literary sense, but the descriptions of child abuse are disturbing. The book centers around food. Food is also used metaphorically to describe the events of everyday life on this single street in the Philippines where ...

from wandering_star

Merlinda Bobis is a poet, and this book - a young girl's description of her street and neighbours in a small town in the Philippines - is a very poetic one. It's full of symbolism - the street itself is described more than once as sitting between a church and a volcano, "between two gods. The smo...

from bsittig

Melinda Bobis tells the haunting story of a twelve year old girl living in poverty in a small village in the Philippines. Nenita is a warm, loving girl who is abused by her mother. The mother married outside her class when she became pregnant with Nenita and resents the shame brought into her lif...