America Is Not the Heart: A Novel Binding:Paperback She visits African-American hair salons

She visits African-American hair salons where she's told that she has "good" hair

from the Where in the Garden

and there are suspicions that the attack was politically motivated

Publisher: Library of America

2021 Aspen Words Literary Prize Finalist

America Is Not the Heart: A Novel Binding:Paperback She visits African-American hair salonsNamed 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