America Is Not the Heart: A Novel

America Is Not the Heart: A NovelNamed one of the best books of the year by NPR, Real Simple, Lit Hub, The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, The New York Post, Kirkus Reviews, and The New York Public Library "A saga rich with origin myths, national and personal . . . Castillo is part of a younger generation of American writers instilling literature with a layered sense of identity." Vogue How many lives fit in a lifetime? When Hero De Vera arrives in America haunted by the

and explores how becoming a parent has recalibrated his sense of the world

but through the changing world in which they are growing up--through the changing world of which we are all a part

One Christmas Eve

Africa Is Not a Country celebrates the energy and particularity of the continent’s different cultures and communities

"Magic creates a centuries-long divide between peoples in this stunning debut novel inspired by North African and West African folklore

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The story of Native peoples' resistance to environmental injustice and land incursions

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK

but it will also remind them

Told over the course of three sizzling summer months

But by the time they graduate