Maï¿½ana Means Heaven

Name: Maï¿½ana Means Heaven
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ISBN: 9780816530359

ISBN-10: 0816530351

ISBN-13: 9780816530359

Edition: 2nd 2013

Authors: Tim Z. Hernandez

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In this love story of impossible odds, award-winning writer Tim Z. Hernandez weaves a rich and visionary portrait of Bea Franco, the real woman behind famed American author Jack Kerouac’s “The Mexican Girl.” Set against an ominous backdrop of California in the 1940s, deep in the agricultural heartland of the Great Central Valley, Mañana Means Heaven reveals the desperate circumstances that lead a married woman to an illicit affair with an aspiring young writer traveling across the United States.When they meet, Franco is a migrant farmworker with two children and a failing marriage, living with poverty, violence, and the looming threat of deportation, while the “college boy” yearns to one…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Publication date: 8/29/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 6.38" wide x 9.26" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English