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The Anaheim Beauties Valencia Queen
Paperback
Series: A Red Car Noir
ISBN13: 9781732903401
Publisher: Arroyo Willow Press
Published: Jan 7 2020
Pages: 330
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.74 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
THE ANAHEIM BEAUTIES VALENCIA QUEEN takes readers back a century, to a time when the country was recovering from WWI, orange groves dominated southern California, Hollywood was a mecca for beautiful young women, and the Klan seemed to stand for God, family, country, and the American Way - or did it?
Taking place in post WWI southern California, THE ANAHEIM BEAUTIES VLAENCIA QUEEN is a compelling, multilayered novel which proves that then, as now, validation rackets existed, seducing the lonely, the disenfranchised, the insecure, and the self-conscious, providing them with a sense of fitting in while luring them into behaviors beyond the pale.
In 1924 the Ku Klux Klan took over Anaheim's city council, plus ten of eleven slots on the police force. In a Roaring 20's citrus-packing suburb of 10,000 people, where the ethics of Jay Gatsby collide with those of Elmer Gantry, an aspiring high school pitching phenom, fatherless Dean Reynolds, falls under the spell of drop-dead-gorgeous Helen Webber and her rich, agenda-driven father.
Helen, whose face graces orange crate labels shipped around the world, is using Dean as local arm-candy while sleeping her way through Hollywood. Her father and his connections all turn out to be Klansmen. After a shadowy motorcar accident kills a teammate on Dean's prom night, Dean has no one safe to turn to. But the Klan is there to help.
Steeped in little-known California history, the story gives us characters whose problems, moral dilemmas, strengths and weaknesses are as relevant today as they were in 1924. Yesterday meets today in this provocative coming-of-age historical novel.
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