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The chapter (section?) “True Love Comes for Mine Fujiko,” and a line on p. 313 that made me cry:

“When he got on the phone, he said, in the way that a person could say a name differently from anyone else in the world, simply because it was that name, in that mouth, passing between those two people, the deep-in-the-guy intimacy of siblings that Hero had never felt: Sol[y]—”

The author you are, Castillo.

The very ending scene of the Ang Dalagang Pilipina chapter quite literally just cemented this book for me as a guaranteed 4 stars — it is beyond me how succinctly Castillo writes and makes you Hero. I can’t believe 😭😭😭