Elaine Castillo - America Is Not The Heart - 2018 [EN]

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"America Is Not the Heart: A Novel by Elaine Castillo" is a Unknown title in English, distributed as a EPUB file (1.1 MB). Written by Elaine Castillo. The book spans approximately 460 pages with 147,343 words. Named one of the best books of 2018 by NPR, Real Simple, Lit Hub, The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, The New York Post, Kirkus Reviews, and The New York Public Library "A saga rich with origin myths, national and personal . . . Castillo is part of a younger generation of American writers instilling literature with a layered sense of identity." — Vogue How many lives fit in a lifetime? When Hero De Vera arrives in America—haunted by the political upheaval in the Philippines and disowned by her parents—she's already on her third. Her uncle gives her a fresh start in the Bay Area, and ...

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LanguageEnglish (EN)

GenreFiction

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Size1.1 MB

Pages460

ArchivedAug 12, 2026

Synopsis

With a sophistication rare in a first novel, Castillo recognizes a larger network of suffering—an understanding that trauma is, along with our mutual need for love, food, sex, and a coherent sense of self, one of humanity’s least exclusive clubs. This is Castillo’s first novel, and it is masterful. The heart Castillo describes has room for more than America. Although the book is thick, it is a small vessel to contain all that Castillo slips in. Like Diaz’s stories and first novel, Castillo’s is