![]() ![]() ![]() Through befriending Adela and her family, she eventually finds a job outside of babysitting, a loving relationship with Adela’s daughter Rosalyn, and a place of belonging. After visiting a Filipino-American named Adela, who claims to be able to help Roni’s eczema, Hero is introduced to Adela’s whole family. Hero is closed off from others in the beginning but soon opens up, becoming close with Roni. She moves to Milpitas, California, to live with her uncle Pol and his wife Paz, and she becomes a babysitter for their daughter Roni. The hero of the story is Geronima, who happens to go by the unlikely nickname Hero. With America Is Not the Heart, Elaine Castillo joins this group, telling the story of a Filipino-American family with realism and care. It also helps that recent novels about immigration feature some of the best writing of the last decade, including Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah. There are many reasons for this popularity, but you can probably guess that politics in the United States have been one of the driving factors. Stories of immigration have been a hot commodity for the past few years. ![]()
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