TY  - BOOK
AU  - Vadi,Jos�e
TI  - Inter state: essays from California 
SN  - 9781593766955
AV  - F866.2 .V33 2021
U1  - 979.4 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - New York
PB  - Soft Skull
KW  - Vadi, Jos�e,
KW  - Mexican Americans
KW  - California
KW  - Biography
KW  - Working class
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Civilization
KW  - Anecdotes
KW  - Description and travel
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Biographies
KW  - Essays
N1  - Essays; 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 -- 14th and Jackson -- Post : an afterworld
N2  - "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 Jos�e 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"--
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