About the economic and geographic landscape of the San Joaquin Valley. You had a choice a long time ago when i looked to the east and started my career in baltimore, i could have gone around the country in each place and had books and decided to come back here. The space that she me and try to understand what was and what people were and i began with my own family story, that linked up to the other stories and when i hear the stories of the africanamericans who came west and the japanese, the mexicans crossing the border, theyre not very much different than my grandfather today. My grandfather came here in 1920. An ox is the name of the river that flows beyond not there and he was a poet and author wasnt pending, the actual last name was giuseppe. The iam, it means the son of so we were the sons of joseph. He changed it to mark arax because it was a more literary pending. Armenian genocide broke out. At the height of an act in istanbul. From 1915 to 1916, 17 and he went up there with h