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Moderation, the 'passionate and tender love story' (Kaliane Bradley), is out July 2025 - available to pre-order now
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Longlisted for the Aspen Literary Prize, 2019
Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, 2018
Longlisted for Elle's Big Book Award, 2018
A giant debut novel about the redemptive,…
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1 author picked America Is Not the Heart as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
California stories are frequently immigrant stories, and there are many to choose from.
I loved Elaine Castillo’s debut novel about three generations of Filipinos who settle in the Bay Area and fight their way to a place for themselves. The characters are vibrant and alive, querulous, sexy, ambitious, dreamy. They never completely overcome the shadow of the past in the Philippines or the conflicts of the present in the United States, but despite sadness and tragedy, the book ends with love.
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