![]() ![]() ![]() Nonetheless, they manage to support a modest lifestyle and a troublemaking seven-year old daughter, Geronima, nicknamed Roni. They both work long hours in low-ranking jobs for which they are overqualified. Here she sets up house in Milpitas along with her surgeon husband, Pol. She gains a place at university to study nursing which, along with some family connections, allows her to find work in California. The action begins in the 1960s where Paz, a young Filipina, is growing up in a poverty-stricken village in Pangasinan. ![]() America Is Not the Heart offers some genuine insights into love, life and what constitutes a home as well as an absorbing family saga set between the Philippines and the Bay area of San Francisco. There is much more than the average “Asian expatriate in the US” story to be found in the debut novel by Elaine Castillo. ![]()
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