Castillo is openly bisexual and has said it was important for her to write about bisexual women in her novel because of how rarely they are depicted. Set across the Philippines and the United States in the 1980s and early 1990s, America Is Not the Heart is a sprawling, soulful telenovela of a debut, spanning three generations of women in one family shaped and pulled apart by politics, class, historyand perfume. The title of the novel is a reference to Carlos Bulosan's novel America Is in the Heart. Parts of the book take place in Milpitas, California, where Castillo grew up. Maris Kreizman, wrote in Vulture that 'the writing in America Is Not the Heart is tremendous, the descriptions evocative, and the characters will stay with you'.

If you are not a member of a partner institution, whole book download is not. Ligaya Mishan, writing for the New York Times Book Review, describes it as 'hungrily ambitious in sweep and documentary in detail, and reads like a seismograph of the aftershocks from trading one life for another'. America is in the heart, a personal history, by Carlos Bulosan., Bulosan. Her first novel, America Is Not the Heart was published in 2018 and received widespread acclaim. She was a three-time recipient of the Roselyn Schneider Eisner Prize for prose while at UC Berkeley, and she has also been nominated for the Pat Kavanagh Award, a Pushcart Prize, and a Gatewood Prize. In 2009, Castillo moved to London and later received a MA in Creative & Life Writing from Goldsmiths, University of London. She was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and attended University of California, Berkeley. Elaine Castillo (born 1984 ) is an American writer.

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