Elaine Castillo

Filipino-American novelist best known for her debut novel "America Is Not the Heart" (2018), which explores Filipino-American immigrant and diasporic experiences.

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  1. 1. Moderation

    Content moderator Girlie Delmundo earns a promotion when her employer acquires a leading virtual reality company, moving her into an elite VR moderation role. The job’s perks help her family but deepen her isolation, and when she begins a tentative relationship with the company’s reserved co‑founder William Cheung she must reckon with the limits of controlling narratives and the persistence of the past. A character-driven novel about work, intimacy, and how technology reshapes human connection.

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