{"id":43197,"date":"2017-12-15T11:12:14","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T16:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=43197"},"modified":"2017-12-14T14:20:20","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T19:20:20","slug":"heartland-ana-simo-booklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/heartland-ana-simo-booklist\/","title":{"rendered":"Heartland by Ana Simo [in Booklist]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-43119\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/11\/Heartland-by-Ana-Simo-on-BookDragon-534x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"534\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/11\/Heartland-by-Ana-Simo-on-BookDragon-534x800.jpg 534w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/11\/Heartland-by-Ana-Simo-on-BookDragon.jpg 619w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 534px) 100vw, 534px\" \/>Although the inaugural <a href=\"http:\/\/www.restlessbooks.com\/prize-for-new-immigrant-writing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing<\/a> went to <a href=\"https:\/\/nyuad.nyu.edu\/en\/academics\/divisions\/arts-and-humanities\/faculty\/deepak-unnikrishnan.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Deepak Unnikrishnan<\/a>\u2019s dazzling <em><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/temporary-people-deepak-unnikrishnan-christian-science-monitor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Temporary People<\/a><\/em> (2017), the judges were so enthralled by the \u201cinsane and brilliant\u201d <em>Heartland<\/em> by Cuban-born, New York-domiciled lesbian activist Simo that it, too, went to press, enabling the 73-year-old to enjoy her literary debut.<\/p>\n<p>At age 11, <em>Heartland<\/em>\u2019s unnamed narrator wins a Blue Ribbon at the Elmira County Fair for writing \u201can inadvertently anti-Semitic fable,\u201d which condemns her to become a \u201c[w]riting-made-me-want-to-puke\u201d writer. While supporting her \u201cwriting curse\u201d with menial jobs and often masquerading as someone else, she falls for Bebe, the \u201clove of [her] loveless, licentious life.\u201d Losing Bebe to Mercy McCabe sets the spurned narrator on a mission-to-kill, luring McCabe back to Elmira, where murderous intentions go awry, hindered by frostbitten limbs, disappearances, unreliable staff, an insatiable librarian, and a return of the dead.<\/p>\n<p>Eschewing labels and defying expectations, Simo slyly confronts race, sexuality, multigenerational duty, immigrant dislocation, and even dirty politics while spinning a bizarrely spectacular, outlandishly disorienting (not-)love-story of lost, searching souls.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/Heartland-Ana-Simo\/pid=9181342\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">&#8220;Fiction,&#8221; <em>Booklist<\/em>, December 15, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although the inaugural Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing went to Deepak Unnikrishnan\u2019s dazzling Temporary People (2017), the judges were so enthralled by the \u201cinsane and brilliant\u201d Heartland by Cuban-born, New York-domiciled lesbian activist Simo that it, too, went to press, enabling the 73-year-old&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6770,6,199,6535],"tags":[7656,84,6608,6668,22,10,11,68,7655,51,25,50,13,212,216,28],"class_list":["post-43197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-cuban-american","category-fiction","category-latinaox","category-repost","tag-ana-simo","tag-betrayal","tag-bookdragon","tag-booklist","tag-civil-rights","tag-family","tag-friendship","tag-haves-vs-have-nots","tag-heartland","tag-identity","tag-immigration","tag-lgbtqia","tag-love","tag-murder","tag-mystery","tag-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - 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