02323cam a2200373 i 4500 1849221705 TxAuBib 20250109120000.0 230816s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023935645 9780316540322 0316540323 (OCoLC)1393523826 TxAuBib rda Tometich, Annabelle, 1980-, author. The mango tree : a memoir of fruit, Florida, and felony / Annabelle Tometich. First edition. New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2024. ©2024. viii, 309 pages : hardcover ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "When journalist Annabelle Tometich picks up the phone one June morning, she isn't expecting a collect call from an inmate at the Lee County Jail. And when she accepts, she certainly isn't prepared to hear her mother's voice on the other end of the line. However, explaining the situation to her younger siblings afterwards was easy; all she had to say was, "Mom shot at some guy. He was messing with her mangoes." They immediately understood. Answering the questions of the breaking-news reporter--at the same newspaper where Annabelle worked as a restaurant critic--proved more difficult. Annabelle decided to go with a variation of the truth: it was complicated. So begins The Mango Tree, a poignant and deceptively entertaining memoir of growing up as a mixed-race Filipina "nobody" in suburban Florida as Annabelle traces the roots of her upbringing--all the while reckoning with her erratic father's untimely death in a Fort Myers motel, her fiery mother's bitter yearning for the country she left behind, and her own journey in the pursuit of belonging." -- Publisher annotation. 20250109. Tometich, Annabelle, 1980- Journalists Florida Biography. Filipino Americans Florida Biography. Authors, American 21st century Biography. Filipinos Biography. Florida Biography. autobiographies (literary works.) Autobiographies. lcgft