His younger wife knows enough about the might and secrecy of the De Vera family to keep her head down. Her uncle gives her a fresh start in the Bay Area, and he doesn't ask about her past. 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. Castillo is part of a younger generation of American writers instilling literature with a layered sense of identity." - Vogue "A saga rich with origin myths, national and personal. 2022.Named one of the best books of 2018 by NPR, Real Simple, Lit Hub, The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, The New York Post, Kirkus Reviews, and The New York Public Library Castillo is openly bisexual and has said it was important for her to write about bisexual women in her novel because of how rarely they are depicted. The title of the novel is a reference to Carlos Bulosan's novel America Is in the Heart. Parts of the book take place in Milpitas, California, where Castillo grew up.
Maris Kreizman, wrote in Vulture that "the writing in America Is Not the Heart is tremendous, the descriptions evocative, and the characters will stay with you". Ligaya Mishan, writing for the New York Times Book Review, describes it as "hungrily ambitious in sweep and documentary in detail, and reads like a seismograph of the aftershocks from trading one life for another". Her first novel, America Is Not the Heart was published in 2018 and received widespread acclaim.
She was a three-time recipient of the Roselyn Schneider Eisner Prize for prose while at UC Berkeley, and she has also been nominated for the Pat Kavanagh Award, a Pushcart Prize, and a Gatewood Prize. In 2009, Castillo moved to London and later received a MA in Creative & Life Writing from Goldsmiths, University of London. She was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and attended University of California, Berkeley. Elaine Castillo (born 1984 ) is an American writer.
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