PDF-[BOOK]-West of the West: Dreamers, Believers, Builders, and Killers in the Golden State

Teddy Roosevelt once exclaimed When I am in California I am not in the West I am west of the West and in this book Mark Arax spends four years travelling up and down the Golden State to explore its singular place in the world This is California beyond the clichà This is California as only a native son deep in the dust could draw it Compelling lyrical and ominous his new collection finds a different drama rising out of each confounding landscape The Summer of the Death of Hilario Guzman has been praised as a stunningly intimate portrait of one immigrant family from Oaxaca through harrowing border crossings and brutal raisin harvests Down the road in the Home Front rightwing Christians and Jews form a strange pact that tries to silence debate on the War on Terror and a conflicted father loses not one but two sons in Iraq The Last Okie in Lamont the inspiration for the town in the Grapes of Wrath has but one Okie left who tells Arax his life story as he drives to a funeral to bury one more Dust Bowl migrant The Highlands of Humboldt is a journey to marijuana growing capital of the US where the old hippies are battling the new hippies over pollution pot and the local bank collects a mountain of cash each day much of it redolent of cannabis Arax pieces together the murdersuicide at the heart of a rotisserie chicken empire in The Legend of Zankou a story included in the Best American Crime Reporting 2009 And in the end he provides a moving epilogue to the murder of his own father a crime in the California heartland finally solved after thirty years In the finest tradition of Joan Didion Arax combines journalism essay and memoir to capture social upheaval as well as the sense of being rooted in a community Piece by piece the stories become a whole a stunning panorama of California and America in a new century. 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