Join Loyalty and Kwento Bookstore Collective in welcoming Mia P. Manansala and Gabriella Buba for a VIRTUAL event to celebrate the release of Guilt and Ginataan! The Kwento Bookstore Collective is made up of Filipino-owned indie bookstores and this virtual event is co-hosted by Bel Canto Books, Femme Fire Books, Loyalty Bookstores, Waucoma Bookstore, and Word Up Community Bookshop. This event will be held digitally via Crowdcast and is free to attend. Click here to register for the event. You can also order the book below to be added to the event's registration list, and there will also be an option to snag the books during the event.

ABOUT THE BOOK

The annual Shady Palms Corn Festival is one of the town’s biggest moneymakers, drawing crowds from all over the Midwest looking to partake in delicious treats, local crafts, and of course, the second largest corn maze in Illinois. Lila Macapagal and her Brew-ha Cafe crew, Adeena Awan and Elena Torres, are all too happy to participate in the event and even make a little wager on who can make it through the corn maze the fastest—but their fun is suddenly cut short when a dead body is found in the middle of the maze…and an unconscious Adeena lies next to it, clutching a bloody knife.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR 

Mia P. Manansala (she/her) is a writer  from Chicago who loves books, baking, and bad-ass women. She is the author of the multi-award-winning Tita Rosie’s Kitchen Mystery series and the forthcoming YA novel DEATH IN THE CARDS (May 2025). She uses humor (and murder) to explore aspects of the Filipino diaspora, queerness, and her millennial love for pop culture.

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