Inter State: Essays from California - Jose Vadi

\nA debut collection of poetic, linked essays investigating the past and present state of California, its conflicting histories and their impact on a writer's family and life. \nCalifornia has been advertised as a destiny manifested for those ready to pull up their bootstraps and head west across to find wealth on the other side of the Sierra Nevada since the 19th century. Across the seven essays in the debut collection by Jos� Vadi, we hear from the descendants of those not promised that prize. \n \nInter State explores California through many lenses: an aging obsessed skateboarder; a self-appointed dive bar DJ; a laid-off San Francisco tech worker turned rehired contractor; a grandson of Mexican farmworkers pursuing the crops they tilled. \n \nAmidst wildfires, high speed rail, housing crises, unprecedented wealth and its underlying decay, Inter State excavates and roots itself inside those necessary stories and places lost in the ever-changing definitions of a selectively golden state.\n