Erik Pedersen, The Orange County Register

Elaine Castillo made the Financial Times’ “30 of the Planet’s Most Exciting Young People,” and her debut novel, “America Is Not the Heart,” was named a best book of 2018 by NPR, Lit Hub, Kirkus Reviews and more outlets.

Her new book is “Moderation.” Here, she takes the Book Pages Q&A.

Q. Please tell readers about your new book.

I keep saying “Moderation” is a novel about two people who are wrong about the genre the story of their lives is being told in: one thinks he’s in a corporate espionage revenge thriller about the collusion between the tech industry and the rise of the far right, the other thinks she’s in a gritty immigrant drama about content moderators and racialized labor in the post-2008 economic climate—and actually, they’re both in

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