Corner-Store Dreams and the 2008 Financial Crisis

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 bakeryor 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.

Gives readers a subversive, funny, and inspirational narrative, like Don Quixote Tells a moving story about middle-aged struggles to overcome isolation Provides insight into Latino culture, prescient dreams, the Financial Crisis, and the heroics of small-business owners

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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.

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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.