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 ...
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 ...
Publishers Weekly

The Mango Tree (La mata de mango)

Wielding visual power in this wordless picture book, Rodriguez renders a story of a childhood friendship enacted in the branches of a mango tree. Across a wide ocean landscape, an island rises ...
The News-Press

Fort Myers writer lands on Washington Post's '28 books to read this summer'

It was the Friday before Memorial Day weekend, and Annabelle Tometich woke up to a surprising Google Alert on her phone. The Washington Post had just mentioned her new book, "The Mango Tree." To ...
Tampa Bay Times

Annabelle Tometich’s ‘The Mango Tree’ a Florida story of motherhood

The journalist’s memoir focuses with humor and heart on her complicated relationship with her mom. Colette is the former books editor for the Tampa Bay Times. She now writes for Bay Magazine. The ...