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Title: American Is in the Heart, American Autobiography Ser. by Carlos Bulosan ISBN: 0-7812-8467-8 Publisher: Reprint Services Corp Pub. Date: January, 2000 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $89.00

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Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (4 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Flippin for Carlos
Comment: AMERICA IS IN THE HEART is an autobiographical memoir that traces the life of Carlos Bulosan, from his childhood, in the Philippines during the 1920s, to his adulthood, as an immigrant in the United States during the Depression. The memoir chronicles both his colonized and immigrant experience(s) and illustrates what it meant to be a Filipino in the early 20th century. The story is told with simple and poetic clarity, suffused with a lyricism that is laced by Bulosan's fiercely hopeful naiveté and the brutal disappointment of his experience of social violence. Although this book was written nearly 70 years ago, it remains astonishingly modern. Bulosan's language is sharp and immediate. It draws the reader closely to his life, his sentiments, and his undying faith and love for that shared ideal we call 'America'.

I first read this book when I was a teenager and have found myself returning to it again and again...and again. I agree with the other reviewer - I, too, wish this book was required reading for high schools/colleges. It is an important piece of work, not only because it is a beautifully-written memoir of a young man's struggle for self-hood and identity, but also because it documents an essential part of colonial history in the Philippines and immigrant labor in the United States. Bulosan's 'Heart' gives voice to a piece of history, at once personal and collective, that should never be lost.

Rating: 5
Summary: like the skin of an onion, so clear
Comment: i too had the soft cover, given to me by sesshu foster, and the ghost of the landscape that Bulosan writes of is still here. this is prose/poetry beautifully describing the dance of young people back in the philippines, the hardship of ordinary people, and the ugly laughter the filipino rich at spilled rice...but Carlos is not bitter in this great book, his journey from the PI to the US and then across this spoiled soil is cromatically sharp and true in it's up-close first encounter fasination with brute honesty and fading hope. borrow it from a friend unless you got $89...this is a wonderful book and should be taught in our universities/high schools

Rating: 5
Summary: Touching...
Comment: I bought the soft-cover version from Amazon a long time ago, and since then, I have read the book many times. All Filipino immigrants should get this. Bulosan's prose is brilliant. His plight as a newcomer in America would touch your heart. It is easy to take for granted now what we Filipino immigrants have in North America, but after reading this book,one would realize that what our ancestors went through was amazing- living in a time when "the lives of Filipinos were cheaper than those of dogs" (p.143, Chapter XIX).Buy it!!!