Corner-Store Dreams and the 2008 Financial Crisis: A True Story about Risk, Entrepreneurship, Immigration, and Latino-Anglo Friendship

ISBN-13: 9783319848624 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 229 str.

Peter Wogan

Opis

This book tells the incredible true story of Ranulfo Juárez, a Mexican immigrant. After working for years in the fields of Oregon and becoming a U.S. citizen, Ranulfo started making plans to buy a small bakery in 2005. But not knowing if the economy would hold steady, Ranulfo examined his dreams every morning in search of secret clues foretelling insight and a successful bakery-or homelessness. Ranulfo also enlisted author Peter Wogan, a white anthropology professor with a penchant for self-doubt, as his confidante and sidekick in this quest. Readers won't know until the end whether Ranulfo became another innocent victim of the Financial Crisis of 2008, but, throughout, they will see Ranulfo and Peter confront naysayers and cheats, as well as their own differences and fears. Like Don Quixote , this book is comical, subversive, and inspirational.

Spis treści

1. Cutting the Cloth

2. Invitation

3. Teaming Up

4. Saints of the Casino

5. Car Crash

6. Trip to Mexico

7. Don Quixote Rides Again

8. Searching for the Key

9. A Moon Shot

10. Visit to Campus

11. Confronting the Enemy

12. Mysteries of Money

13. Garbage Dream

14. Crash Warning

15. Stopping Time

16. Into the Mystic

17. Plan B

18. Mr. Success or Mr. Worthless?

19. Financial Crisis

20. Wrecking Ball

21. Respect for the Turtle

O autorze

Peter Wogan is the author of Magical Writing in Salasaca and co-author of Hollywood Blockbusters. He is Professor of Anthropology at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, USA.