![]() The older Geronima, a medical student in Manila who dropped out to join a Communist rebel insurgency against the then-incumbent dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos, also goes by "Nimang", but upon her move to America is eventually rechristened "Hero" by the other, younger Geronima-"Roni", Paz and Pol's daughter, who's starting first grade when, in 1990, Hero flies into her and her parents' lives (again, in the case of Pol, her uncle). Starring roles in that family include: Paz, who grew up in Pangasinan province, studied hard to become a nurse and was first to settle in California Pol, her surgeon husband, who aspires to resume his medical practice in his old age and two girls both named Geronima, cousins to each other though separated by some decades and a childhood on opposite sides of a world and a colonial empire by any other name. ![]() ![]() A 2018 Doorstopper novel by Filipino-American author Elaine Castillo, and her first novel, America is Not the Heart is, at … heart, a Generational Saga centred around the de Vera family, whose ancestors and in-laws originally hail from the Ilocos region in the northwest of the Philippine island of Luzon, but whom history's cards send first to the capital in Manila, through sundry hinterlands across the rest of the island, then ultimately to Milpitas in the San Francisco Bay Area-a common rite of passage for Filipino immigrant families in the United States. ![]()
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