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Penguin Books
April 2019
On Sale: April 2, 2019
432 pages
ISBN: 0735222428
EAN: 9780735222427
Kindle: B073TJPVMK
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LGBTQ | Literature and Fiction
How many lives fit in a lifetime? When Hero De Vera arrives in America--haunted by the
political upheaval in the Philippines and disowned by her
parents--she's already on her third. Her uncle gives her a
fresh start in the Bay Area, and he doesn't ask about her
past. His younger wife knows enough about the might and
secrecy of the De Vera family to keep her head down. But
their daughter--the first American-born daughter in the
family--can't resist asking Hero about her damaged hands. An increasingly relevant story told with startling lucidity,
humor, and an uncanny ear for the intimacies and shorthand
of family ritual, America Is Not the Heart is a
sprawling, soulful debut about three generations of women in
one family struggling to balance the promise of the American
dream and the unshakeable grip of history. With exuberance,
grit, and sly tenderness, here is a family saga; an origin
story; a romance; a narrative of two nations and the people
who leave one home to grasp at another.
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