As the third of four daughters of a Filipino father and part-Native American mother, Madeline Benités has been raised in the progressive undercurrent of the San Francisco Bay Area. She owns a deep commitment to her family, and to the multi-ethnic community in which she lives. Her childhood has been a model of family cohesion and stability, and she considers herself to be open-minded and levelheaded. But her ...Täielik kirjeldus
As the third of four daughters of a Filipino father and part-Native American mother, Madeline Benités has been raised in the progressive undercurrent of the San Francisco Bay Area. She owns a deep commitment to her family, and to the multi-ethnic community in which she lives. Her childhood has been a model of family cohesion and stability, and she considers herself to be open-minded and levelheaded. But her well-being is shattered when a young man close to Madeline's age claims to be her father's son, conceived during a brief affair, and secreted away for over twenty years. Deeper than her cynical grief, is the disillusionment borne from her father's past deception, and her misguided personal outrage at her mother's betrayal. Family secrets that have been quietly buried are instantly exposed, and once-strong relationships seem irreparably damaged. Blood Fruit is the chronicle of a young woman's social and sexual coming of age, in one of the most liberal regions of America.
