Mañana Means Heaven

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M A Ñ A N A M E A N S H E A V E N Camino del Sol A Latina and Latino Literary Series M A Ñ A N A M E A N S H E A V E N t i m z . h e r n a n d e z tucson The University of Arizona Press© 2013 Tim Z. Hernandez All rights reserved www.uapress.arizona.edu Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hernandez,Tim Z. Mañana Means Heaven / Tim Z. Hernandez. pages cm. — (Camino del Sol: A Latina and Latino Literary Series) ISBN 978-0-8165-3035-9 (cloth : acid-free paper) I.Title. PS3608.E768M36 2013 813’.6—dc23 2013000966 Publication of this book is made possible in part by the proceeds of a permanent endowment created with the assistance of a Challenge Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, a federal agency. Manufactured in the United States of America on acid-free, archival-quality paper containing a minimum of 30% post-consumer waste and processed chlorine free. 18 17 16 15 14 13 6 5 4 3 2 1 Bea Franco’s letters to Jack Kerouac (which appear on pages 172, 178, 190, and 191) courtesy of the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature,The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. For Dayanna, In Lak’ech, Ala K’in M A Ñ A N A M E A N S H E A V E N ...