Ma±Ana Means Heaven (Camino Del Sol)

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 KerouacÆs ôThe Mexican Girl.ö Set against an ominous backdrop of California in the 1940s, deep in the agricultural heartland of the Great Central Valley, Ma±ana 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 ôcollege boyö yearns to one day make a name for himself in the writing world. The significance of their romance poses vastly different possibilities and consequences. Ma±ana Means Heaven deftly combines fact and fiction to pull back the veil on one of literatureÆs most mysterious and evocative characters. Inspired by FrancoÆs love letters to Kerouac and HernandezÆs 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: Tim Z. Hernandez
• | Publisher: University Of Arizona Press
• | Publication Date: Sep 27, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 240 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Fiction
• | ISBN-10: 0816533938
• | ISBN-13: 9780816533930