For a debut, America is Not the Heart has received impressive acclaim, and there’s already an Italian translation: L’America Non E Casa. She greets me with a warm hug and leans over for a beso. The day before, this Fil-Am writer had gathered a full house for her appearance at the Sydney Writer’s Festival to talk about her debut novel America is Not the Heart-Sydney is just one of the stops among several writing festival appearances she is making around the world. T’s an overcast Sunday afternoon when I meet Elaine Castillo at the Old Clare Hotel in Sydney, Australia. We caught up with the author of America is Not The Heart at a writer’s festival in Sydney to talk about her roots, translating for a white audience-”No one translates white middle-class Brooklyn life to me, and I don’t know what that’s like“-and how she dealt with her father’s passing.
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