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

English · Hardback

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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.

List of contents

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

About the author










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.

Product details

Authors Peter Wogan
Publisher Springer, Berlin
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 30.06.2017
 
EAN 9783319522630
ISBN 978-3-31-952263-0
No. of pages 229
Dimensions 153 mm x 17 mm x 217 mm
Weight 410 g
Series Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology
Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology
Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology -
Subject Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)

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