Inter state
Subtitle: essays from California
By: José Vadi
Edition: First Soft Skull edition.
Publisher: Soft Skull Press
Published: 2021
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781593766962
Subjects: Anecdotes; Civilization; Description and travel; Mexican Americans; Biography; Working class; Social conditions; Travel
Other titles: Interstate, essays from California
Description: "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"--
Table of contents: title: Inter State; title: Getting to Suzy's; title: Standing in the shadows of brands : San Francisco at dawn; title: A California inquiry (or California in flames); title: Daddy's home; title: Spot check; title: 14 & Jackson; title: Post : an afterworld.