Natural Takeover of Small Things is a collection of poetry that offers an unflinching view of California s Heartland, the San Joaquin Valley. In his distinctive, lyrical, pull-no-punches style, Tim Z. Hernandez offers a glimpse of the people, the landscape, the rhythm, and the detritus of the rural West. As Hernandez peels back the facade of the place, he reveals that home is not always where the heart is. The book opens with an image of Fresno as the inexhaustible nerve/in the twitching leg of a dog/three hours after being smashed/beneath the retread wheel/of a tomato truck en...
Natural Takeover of Small Things is a collection of poetry that offers an unflinching view of California s Heartland, the San Joaquin Valley. I...
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, Manana 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...
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...
Provides an account of ""the worst airplane disaster in California's history"", which claimed the lives of thirty-two passengers, including twenty-eight Mexican farmworkers who were being deported by the US government. Combining painstaking investigative research and masterful storytelling, Tim Z. Hernandez weaves a captivating narrative from testimony, historical records, and eyewitness accounts.
Provides an account of ""the worst airplane disaster in California's history"", which claimed the lives of thirty-two passengers, including twenty-eig...
