CP - Wildflowers - El Dorado County Book Launch & Open Mic
Tuesday, Jul. 11, 5:30pm
Join us for this special evening of inspiration and beauty! El Dorado County Book Launch and Open Mic featuring Beverly Parayno reading from her debut short story collection Wildflowers; With welcome by El Dorado County Poet Lareate Emeritus Lara Gularte; with guest readers Rina Wakefield, Mary Higbee and Joanne Blossom.
Refreshments provided.
Wildflowers - In these nine unforgettable stories, spanning several generations and traversing the Philippines, the Bay Area, and Ireland, Parayno illuminates the emotional and psychological journeys of Filipino and Filipino American girls and women experiencing fear, desire, loneliness, and despair. Wildflowers speaks to everyone who has ever had to find a strength and resiliency they never knew they had.
Praise for Wildflowers:
Once in a decade, California desert regales us with a superbloom. Wildflower seeds lie dormant in the ground, waiting for the right amount of moisture, wind, and shade to germinate. Unpretentious on their own, golden poppies, bluebells, and brittlebush are astonishing when they blossom all together at one and the same time. Such are characters in Beverly Parayno’s stories: Tender and hardy, each flourishes in the most unlikely circumstances. In this collection, they are spellbinding, unforgettable.
—Olga Zilberbourg, author of Like Water and Other Stories.
Wildflowers is a feat of rigorous craft and beautiful singularity. The nine stories in this debut collection manifest bending moments of tension and compression, uncovering tangled relationships, childhood violence, sexual liaisons, the synchronously tender and savage bond between parent and child, and the burden of colonization and historical trauma which every Filipino family knows too well. From East San Jose’s Tully Road to Urdaneta in Pangasinan Province, Beverly Parayno has created sustained narrative arcs centering spirited and unforgettable protagonists formed as much by rubble and “corrugated overhangs” as by “endless [fields] of radiant color.” —Aileen Cassinetto, Academy of American Poets Fellow
Beverly Parayno is a local author who resides in Cameron Park and leads a monthly Writers Workshop at the Cameron Park Library.
Sponsored by Friends of the Cameron Park Library.
Refreshments provided.
Wildflowers - In these nine unforgettable stories, spanning several generations and traversing the Philippines, the Bay Area, and Ireland, Parayno illuminates the emotional and psychological journeys of Filipino and Filipino American girls and women experiencing fear, desire, loneliness, and despair. Wildflowers speaks to everyone who has ever had to find a strength and resiliency they never knew they had.
Praise for Wildflowers:
Once in a decade, California desert regales us with a superbloom. Wildflower seeds lie dormant in the ground, waiting for the right amount of moisture, wind, and shade to germinate. Unpretentious on their own, golden poppies, bluebells, and brittlebush are astonishing when they blossom all together at one and the same time. Such are characters in Beverly Parayno’s stories: Tender and hardy, each flourishes in the most unlikely circumstances. In this collection, they are spellbinding, unforgettable.
—Olga Zilberbourg, author of Like Water and Other Stories.
Wildflowers is a feat of rigorous craft and beautiful singularity. The nine stories in this debut collection manifest bending moments of tension and compression, uncovering tangled relationships, childhood violence, sexual liaisons, the synchronously tender and savage bond between parent and child, and the burden of colonization and historical trauma which every Filipino family knows too well. From East San Jose’s Tully Road to Urdaneta in Pangasinan Province, Beverly Parayno has created sustained narrative arcs centering spirited and unforgettable protagonists formed as much by rubble and “corrugated overhangs” as by “endless [fields] of radiant color.” —Aileen Cassinetto, Academy of American Poets Fellow
Beverly Parayno is a local author who resides in Cameron Park and leads a monthly Writers Workshop at the Cameron Park Library.
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