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America is not the heart elaine castillo5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() Caring for Roni becomes Hero’s entry into the Filipinx-American borderlands-an expansive yet often overlooked facet of American culture. She moves in with her uncle, Pol De Vera, a blue-blooded surgeon turned security guard, his wife, Paz, an immigrant nurse responsible for her family’s survival and their American-born daughter, Roni, a dark-skinned, eczema-ridden nine-year-old. The protagonist, Hero De Vera, is a former communist rebel faced with yet another new life-this time, in Milpitas, California. Elaine Castillo’s debut novel, America Is Not the Heart, tells the captivating story of a Filipinx family living abroad in the shadow of the Philippines’ dictatorial Marcos regime. ![]()
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