Inter State : Essays from California.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vadi, Jose.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

California--Civilization--Anecdotes.

California.

California--Description and travel.

Vadi, José.

Mexican Americans--California--Biography.

Mexican Americans.

Working class--California--Social conditions.

Working class.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (135 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Inter State

Place of Publication:

New York : Catapult, 2021.

Summary:

"California has been advertised as a destiny manifested for those ready to pull up their bootstraps and head west across to find wealth on the other side of the Sierra Nevada since the 19th century. Across the seven essays in the debut collection by José Vadi, we hear from the descendants of those not promised that prize. INTER STATE explores California through many lenses: an aging obsessed skateboarder; a self-appointed dive bar DJ; a laid-off San Francisco tech worker turned rehired contractor; a grandson of Mexican farmworkers pursuing the crops they tilled. Amidst wildfires, high speed rail, housing crises, unprecedented wealth and its underlying decay, INTER STATE excavates and roots itself inside those necessary stories and places lost in the ever-changing definitions of a selectively golden state"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Inter State

Getting to Suzy's

Standing in the shadows of brands : San Francisco at dawn

A California inquiry (or California in flames)

Daddy's home

Spot check

14 & Jackson

Post : an afterworld.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-59376-696-3

OCLC:

1281957561