The Resource America is not the heart, by Elaine Castillo
America is not the heart, by Elaine Castillo
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The item America is not the heart, by Elaine Castillo represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Greenwood County Library System.
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- Summary
- 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. In a voice as immediate and startling as those of Junot Diaz and NoViolet Bulawayo, America Is Not the Heart is a sprawling, soulful telenovela of a debut novel. With exuberance, muscularity, and tenderness, here is a family saga; an origin story; a romance; a narrative of two nations and the people who leave home to grasp at another, sometimes turning back
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- Large print edition.
- Extent
- 661 pages
- Isbn
- 9781432852764
- Label
- America is not the heart
- Title
- America is not the heart
- Statement of responsibility
- by Elaine Castillo
- Subject
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- true1990s -- 1990 -- 1999
- trueViolence against women
- true1980s -- 1980 -- 1989
- trueLoss (Psychology)
- Filipinos -- United States -- Fiction
- trueSecrets
- trueExtended families
- Large type books
- trueFamily sagas
- trueCulture conflict
- trueCalifornia
- truePhilippines
- Families -- Fiction
- trueIdentity (Psychology)
- trueGeneration gap
- trueImmigrants
- Immigrants -- United States -- Fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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. In a voice as immediate and startling as those of Junot Diaz and NoViolet Bulawayo, America Is Not the Heart is a sprawling, soulful telenovela of a debut novel. With exuberance, muscularity, and tenderness, here is a family saga; an origin story; a romance; a narrative of two nations and the people who leave home to grasp at another, sometimes turning back
- Summary
- Three generations of women from one immigrant family trying to reconcile the home they left behind with the life they're building in America
- Award
- Library Journal Best Books, 2018.
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10639690
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Castillo, Elaine
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3603.A8754
- LC item number
- A44 2018
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- Series statement
- Thorndike Press large print basic
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- Immigrants
- Filipinos
- Families
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- America is not the heart, by Elaine Castillo
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1030447563
- Edition
- Large print edition.
- Extent
- 661 pages
- Form of item
- large print
- Isbn
- 9781432852764
- Lccn
- 2018008982
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1030447563
- Label
- America is not the heart, by Elaine Castillo
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1030447563
- Edition
- Large print edition.
- Extent
- 661 pages
- Form of item
- large print
- Isbn
- 9781432852764
- Lccn
- 2018008982
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1030447563
Subject
- true1980s -- 1980 -- 1989
- true1990s -- 1990 -- 1999
- trueCalifornia
- trueCulture conflict
- trueExtended families
- Families -- Fiction
- trueFamily sagas
- Filipinos -- United States -- Fiction
- trueGeneration gap
- trueIdentity (Psychology)
- trueImmigrants
- Immigrants -- United States -- Fiction
- Large type books
- trueLoss (Psychology)
- truePhilippines
- trueSecrets
- trueViolence against women
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