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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, Ma ana 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 day make a name for himself in the writing world. The significance of their romance poses vastly different possibilities and consequences. Ma ana Means Heaven deftly combines factProdukt Maana Means Heaven (Hernandez Tim Z.)(Paperback) má EAN kód 9780816533930.
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