Tess Uriza Holthe
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Tess Uriza Holthe is a Filipino-American writer, who was born and raised in Bernal Heights, San Francisco and is best known for her novel When the Elephants Dance.
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Growing up, she took advantage of her mother’s connection with the nearby library to borrow as many books as she could read. She also looked to her father’s stories about the Philippines (a technician in a nearby sweat shop) for the inspiration she would later use in her novel When the Elephants Dance.
Although she was raised to obtain a practical career, (which was either being a lawyer, doctor or an accountant) she found herself taking a writing class, only to find out she had a talent for writing.
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- The Five-Forty-Five To Cannes
- When the Elephants Dance was published in 2002 and won the National Best-seller award, crowned the #1 Bestseller by the San Francisco Chronicle, Book Sense Top Ten, Ingram Premier Pick, Barnes and Noble Discover, and Borders' Original Voices Selection. The novel explores the retelling of super natural tales based on indigenous Filipino mythology and Spanish influenced novels, told from the perspective of a family hiding in a cellar during the last weeks of the Japanese occupation in the Philippines.
