![]() ![]() For the most part, Castillo tracks Hero’s experiences in the San Francisco Bay Area, highlighting two sustaining relationships: the first with Roni, her uncle’s school-age daughter, and the second with Rosalyn, with whom she falls in love. Her employer, after all-her sponsor, really-is her uncle Pol, scion of an influential family. The idea is implicit in that name, Hero, though Castillo pushes against our expectations by bestowing it upon a woman fighting patriarchy. Revolving around Hero de Vera-a former rebel (with the scars to prove it) turned au pair of sorts in Milpitas, California-this is a book about identity but even more about standing up for something larger than oneself. ![]() Castillo’s debut novel presents a portrait of the Filipino diaspora, told through the lens of a single family. ![]()
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