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AUTHOR: Elaine Castillo
PUBLISHER: Penguin Books
LANGUAGE: English
DATE: April 3, 2018
PAGES: 432
ISBN: 9780735222427
America Is Not The Heart
by Elaine Castillo
How many lives can one person lead in a single lifetime? When Hero de Vera arrives in America, disowned by her parents in the Philippines, she’s already on her third. Her uncle, Pol, who has offered her a fresh start and a place to stay in the Bay Area, knows not to ask about her past. And his younger wife, Paz, has learned enough about the might and secrecy of the De Vera family to keep her head down. Only their daughter, Roni, asks Hero why her hands seem to constantly ache.
Illuminating the violent political history of the Philippines in the 1980s and 1990s and the insular immigrant communities that spring up in the suburban United States with an uncanny ear for the unspoken intimacies and pain that get buried by the duties of everyday life and family ritual, Castillo delivers a powerful, increasingly relevant novel about the promise of the American dream and the unshakable power of the past.
INCLUSION CRITERIA
A main character (Hero) is attracted to people of multiple genders.
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