But I don't really subscribe to that idea. I've written a book that's in part about a former New People's Army rebel, a book about people who've survived the Marcos dictatorship, about queer immigrant women, so it's relatively easy to point and say: Such and such things are the political aspects of the book. Yeah, I'm one of those cats that believes all art is political, even (or especially) the art that insists on political neutrality or claims to transcend politics altogether. Did you set out to write a political book, or is it the nature of the narrative? This novel is a beautiful example of how the personal is political, and that for many, politics can't be unraveled from intimate, everyday life. Q&A with Elaine Castillo about her debut novel, America is Not the Heart.
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