NPR

'The Mango Tree' is a memoir about growing up mixed-race Filipina in south Florida

The Mango Tree kicks off with a phone call: Journalist Annabelle Tometich is informed her mom has been arrested for shooting a man, with a BB gun, who was trying to take mangoes from her yard. What ...
NPR

Annabelle Tometich on her memoir 'The Mango Tree'

NPR Scott Simon talks with journalist Annabelle Tometich about her book, "The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit Florida, and Felony." Annabelle Tometich's memoir, "The Mango Tree," begins with a sentence ...
The News-Press

Florida writer makes NY Times, Wash. Post with memoir of fruit, Florida, felony

She didn't plan to write about her infamous "mango shooter" mom. At least not entirely. Instead, Annabelle Tometich started out writing what she thought was a cookbook ― an obvious move for the former ...
The New York Times

The Colors and Shapes of Refugee Childhoods

In Edel Rodriguez’s “The Mango Tree” and Viet Thanh Nguyen and Minnie Phan’s “Simone,” environmental displacement is a reality and a metaphor. By Alan Gratz Alan Gratz is the author of the middle ...