{"id":22221,"date":"2024-05-22T06:00:05","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T11:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/borderlessmag.org\/?p=22221"},"modified":"2025-10-09T10:25:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T15:25:45","slug":"chicago-arsenico-y-adobo-misterio-mia-manansala-voces-inmigrantes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borderlessmag.org\/es\/2024\/05\/22\/chicago-arsenic-and-adobo-cozy-mystery-mia-manansala-immigrant-voices\/","title":{"rendered":"Esta autora de Chicago quiere que sepas que las voces de los inmigrantes importan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t<div id=\"fws_69f454f03cc3e\"  data-column-margin=\"default\" data-midnight=\"dark\"  class=\"wpb_row vc_row-fluid vc_row\"  style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; \"><div class=\"row-bg-wrap\" data-bg-animation=\"none\" data-bg-animation-delay=\"\" data-bg-overlay=\"false\"><div class=\"inner-wrap row-bg-layer\" ><div class=\"row-bg viewport-desktop\"  style=\"\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"row_col_wrap_12 col span_12 dark left\">\n\t<div  class=\"vc_col-sm-2 vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs wpb_column column_container vc_column_container col no-extra-padding inherit_tablet inherit_phone \"  data-padding-pos=\"all\" data-has-bg-color=\"false\" data-bg-color=\"\" data-bg-opacity=\"1\" data-animation=\"\" data-delay=\"0\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"vc_column-inner\" >\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n\n\t<div  class=\"vc_col-sm-8 wpb_column column_container vc_column_container col padding-3-percent inherit_tablet inherit_phone \"  data-padding-pos=\"all\" data-has-bg-color=\"false\" data-bg-color=\"\" data-bg-opacity=\"1\" data-animation=\"\" data-delay=\"0\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"vc_column-inner\" >\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \" >\n\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This week, Borderless launched <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/xmqt5A1MutBng7q1A\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Literature is Borderless<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a new book club that centers on books about Chicago\u2019s immigrant and BIPOC communities. The book club, which kicked off at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.roscoebooks.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RoscoeBooks<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, features Chicago authors <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nancyjohnson.net\/about\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nancy Johnson, author of &#8220;The Kindest Lie,<\/span><\/a>&#8220;<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.miapmanansala.com\/about\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mia P. Manansala, author of &#8220;Arsenic and Adobo.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Arsenic and Adobo&#8221; follows Lila Macapagal, a young 25-year-old who moved back home and is tasked with saving her Tita Rosie\u2019s restaurant. After Lila confronts a notorious food critic at her family\u2019s restaurant, the critic drops dead. Arsenic and Adobo is a lighthearted cozy mystery full of delicious Filipino dishes, meddling aunties, and more. Her forthcoming novel in the Tita Rosie\u2019s Kitchen Mystery series, &#8220;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.miapmanansala.com\/copy-of-murder-and-mamon\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Guilt and Ginataan&#8221; <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">will be released later this year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mia sat down with Borderless to talk about her writing process and why it&#8217;s important to tell stories about characters who look like her.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \" >\n\t<p> <script src=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js\" data-type=\"book\" data-affiliate-id=\"81345\" data-sku=\"9780593201671\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"templatera_shortcode\">\n\t\t<div id=\"fws_69f454f03e65b\"  data-column-margin=\"default\" data-midnight=\"dark\"  class=\"wpb_row vc_row-fluid vc_row vc_row-o-equal-height vc_row-flex vc_row-o-content-middle small\"  style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; 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How did your community shape who you are today?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Manasala:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> I was born and raised in Chicago. I grew up in a neighborhood called Hermosa. I didn\u2019t have a large Filipino community, but I had my family. I grew up in an intergenerational household, like many immigrant families. My grandparents immigrated here in the 1970s and 1980s. I grew up with my maternal grandparents, siblings, cousins, aunts, and uncles. Our home became a waystation for other Filipinos who came to Chicago. I had a very large, close-knit family so that impacted how I think about my identity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Borderless Magazine: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tell us more about how you became a writer. Did you always have this desire to write or did it progress over time?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Manansala: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I was one of the few kids in my neighborhood who would get in trouble for reading too much. I would like, eat and read at the same time or spend too much money at the Scholastic book fair. Books were always a part of my life but I never thought it would be a career. We didn\u2019t have generational wealth, and my mother wanted me to be practical. But my parents weren\u2019t discouraging. After graduating from college, I majored in English and minored in Anthropology, I didn\u2019t know what to do next so I taught English in South Korea for three and a half years. I was in a slump after I returned to the U.S., suffering a quarter-life crisis, and then I remembered how much I loved writing. I found a one-day mystery writing class at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.storystudiochicago.org\/\"><b>Story Studio Chicago<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and that class basically changed my life.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"fws_69f454f042ba4\" data-midnight=\"\" data-column-margin=\"default\" class=\"wpb_row vc_row-fluid vc_row inner_row\"  style=\"\"><div class=\"row-bg-wrap\"> <div class=\"row-bg\" ><\/div> <\/div><div class=\"row_col_wrap_12_inner col span_12  left\">\n\t<div  class=\"vc_col-sm-12 wpb_column column_container vc_column_container col child_column no-extra-padding inherit_tablet inherit_phone border_bottom_desktop_1px border_color_000000 border_style_solid \"   data-padding-pos=\"all\" data-has-bg-color=\"false\" data-bg-color=\"\" data-bg-opacity=\"1\" data-animation=\"\" data-delay=\"0\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"vc_column-inner\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"vc_separator wpb_content_element vc_separator_align_center vc_sep_width_100 vc_sep_pos_align_center vc_sep_color_black wpb_content_element vc_separator-has-text\" ><span class=\"vc_sep_holder vc_sep_holder_l\"><span class=\"vc_sep_line\"><\/span><\/span><h4 id=\"read-more-of-our-coverage\">Read More of Our Coverage<\/h4><span class=\"vc_sep_holder vc_sep_holder_r\"><span class=\"vc_sep_line\"><\/span><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \" >\n\t\t\t<div class=\"pk-inline-posts\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"pk-inline-posts-container pk-inline-posts-template-list\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-columns=\"1\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<article id=\"post-21887\" class=\"post-21887 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail category-arts-culture category-organizing category-visuals tag-rizal\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"pk-post-outer\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"pk-post-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"entry-thumbnail\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"pk-overlay pk-overlay-ratio pk-ratio-landscape\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"pk-overlay-background\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/borderlessmag.org\/es\/2024\/04\/08\/chicago-filipino-rizal-center-philippines-lakeview-community-center\/\" class=\"pk-overlay-link\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/borderlessmag.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/2024_04_01_RizalCenter_Web_01-300x225.jpg\" class=\"attachment-pk-thumbnail size-pk-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/borderlessmag.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/2024_04_01_RizalCenter_Web_01-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/borderlessmag.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/2024_04_01_RizalCenter_Web_01-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/borderlessmag.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/2024_04_01_RizalCenter_Web_01-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/borderlessmag.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/2024_04_01_RizalCenter_Web_01-1107x830.jpg 1107w, https:\/\/borderlessmag.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/2024_04_01_RizalCenter_Web_01-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/borderlessmag.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/2024_04_01_RizalCenter_Web_01-1707x1280.jpg 1707w, https:\/\/borderlessmag.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/2024_04_01_RizalCenter_Web_01.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"pk-post-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<header>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"pk-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/borderlessmag.org\/es\/2024\/04\/08\/chicago-filipino-rizal-center-philippines-lakeview-community-center\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">The Revival of Chicago\u2019s Filipino American Rizal Center<\/a><\/h3>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"pk-post-meta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"pk-meta-author meta-author\"><span class=\"author vcard\"><a class=\"url fn n\" href=\"https:\/\/borderlessmag.org\/es\/author\/katrina\/\" title=\"View all posts by Katrina Pham\">Katrina Pham<\/a><\/span><\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"sep\">\u00b7<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"pk-meta-date meta-date\"><a href=\"https:\/\/borderlessmag.org\/es\/2024\/04\/08\/chicago-filipino-rizal-center-philippines-lakeview-community-center\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">abril 8, 2024<\/a><\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/header><!-- .entry-header -->\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .post-inner -->\n\n\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .post-outer -->\n\t\t<\/article>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \" >\n\t<p><b>Borderless Magazine: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tell us more about the themes in your books. Why cozy mysteries?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Manansala: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0My mom and I would buddy-read cozy mystery books together and while I enjoyed these books and loved talking about them with my mom, I never saw myself in them. None of what I saw in my life was reflected in any of the books I was reading. I didn\u2019t want the stories to be about trauma, or specifically immigration \u2013 I think we deserve a wide plethora to choose from. Those stories matter, yes, but I also want to see people who look like me go on adventures, get to be the hero or find love. I want us to have all of that.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Borderless Magazine: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why is it important to have immigrant or BIPOC characters in your stories or any story?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Manansala: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Books are the fastest way to learn about each other. I\u2019m not only writing for myself but for other people. Part of the reason why I think immigrants or BIPOC characters need to be represented in a wide range of genres is because people will boil you down to the very simple things they see in media. They see the trauma, the war stories, or criminal justice, and you only become that one thing in their mind. It\u2019s like when people ask, \u201cWhere are you from?\u201d And when I say Chicago, they say, \u201cNo, where are you really from?\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">People who are not from these backgrounds don\u2019t care about our stories unless it\u2019s written in blood. There\u2019s so little interest in stories about our joy, which is dehumanizing. When you can see someone who looks like you or comes from your community, it\u2019s really transformative. I\u2019m going to get emotional when I tell this story because I always do, but I got an email from a reader who is Asian American. She tells me she\u2019s trying to become a thriller writer but that she\u2019s always made her protagonists white. She writes, \u201cI don\u2019t know if I was doing it intentionally but every thriller I always read had white characters so I assumed if I wanted to be published, I needed to write about white characters.\u201d [<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Manansala\u2019s voice cracked as she held back tears.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">] It wasn\u2019t until she read my books that she realized she could put herself in the pages \u2013 that she could tell her own story. I intentionally write fluffy beach reads, so to hear that I had that kind of impact on someone always gets to me.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Borderless Magazine: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What do you want people to know about the Filipino diaspora?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Manansala: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That we\u2019re not monoliths. 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