Mañana Means Heaven

Mañana Means Heaven - Paperback

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Mañana Means Heaven - Paperback

Mañana Means Heaven - Paperback

by Tim Z. Hernandez
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by Tim Z. Hernandez (Author)

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, Mañana 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 marriage, living with poverty, violence, and the looming threat of deportation, while the "college boy" yearns to one day make a name for himself in the writing world. The significance of their romance poses vastly different possibilities and consequences.

Mañana Means Heaven deftly combines fact and fiction to pull back the veil on one of literature's most mysterious and evocative characters. Inspired by Franco's love letters to Kerouac and Hernandez's interviews with Franco, now in her nineties and living in relative obscurity, the novel brings this lost gem of a story out of the shadows and into the spotlight.

Author Biography

Tim Z. Hernandez is a poet, novelist, and performance artist whose awards include the 2006 American Book Award, the 2010 Premio Aztlán Prize in Fiction, and the James Duval Phelan Award from the San Francisco Foundation. In 2011 the Poetry Society of America named him one of sixteen New American Poets. He holds a BA from Naropa University and an MFA from Bennington College and is the author of the novel Breathing, In Dust, as well as three collections of poetry, including Natural Takeover of Small Things. Learn more at his website, www.timzhernandez.com.

Number of Pages: 240
Dimensions: 0.55 x 9 x 6 IN
Illustrated: Yes
Publication Date: September 27, 2016
ISBN9780816533930
Author Tim Z. Hernandez
PublisherUniversity of Arizona Press
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedSeptember 2016
LanguageENG- English
Pages240
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Tim Z. Hernandez is an award-winning author and performer. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the American Book Award. In 2018 he was recognized by the California Senate for his work locating the victims of the 1948 plane wreck at Los Gatos. He is an associate professor in the University of Texas at El Paso's Bilingual Creative Writing program.

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