Corner-Store Dreams and the 2008 Financial Crisis
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Corner-Store Dreams and the 2008 Financial Crisis

A True Story about Risk, Entrepreneurship, Immigration, and Latino-Anglo Friendship

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Corner-Store Dreams and the 2008 Financial Crisis

A True Story about Risk, Entrepreneurship, Immigration, and Latino-Anglo Friendship

About this book

This book tells the incredible true story of Ranulfo JuĂĄrez, 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.  

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Table of contents

  1. Editors’ Preface
  2. A True Story
  3. Contents
  4. Chapter 1: Cutting the Cloth
  5. Chapter 2: Invitation
  6. Chapter 3: Teaming Up
  7. Chapter 4: Saints of the Casino
  8. Chapter 5: Car Crash
  9. Chapter 6: Trip to Mexico
  10. Chapter 7: Don Quixote Rides Again
  11. Chapter 8: Searching for The Key
  12. Chapter 9: A Moon Shot
  13. Chapter 10: Visit to Campus
  14. Chapter 11: Confronting the Enemy
  15. Chapter 12: Mysteries of Money
  16. Chapter 13: Garbage Dream
  17. Chapter 14: Crash Warning
  18. Chapter 15: Stopping Time
  19. Chapter 16: Into the Mystic
  20. Chapter 17: Plan B
  21. Chapter 18: Mr. Success or Mr. Worthless?
  22. Chapter 19: Financial Crisis
  23. Chapter 20: Wrecking Ball
  24. Chapter 21: Respect for the Turtle
  25. Acknowledgments
  26. Appendix A: Ranulfo’s Reactions to This Book
  27. Appendix B: Names in This Book
  28. Bibliography
  29. Index