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Franco Sendero

Biography

Franco Sendero was born in Italy and raised in New York and California. He immigrated to the United States in 1955. He graduated from UCLA with a BA in English. He has authored the novels Tiller of the Earth, Way to Be, Tapestry, and The Salvation of Salvino Quipal. He brings his unique experiences as a migrant to each of his novels. Prior to being an author he worked as a longshoreman, assembly line worker in an auto factory, life insurance salesman, department store manager, and government employee.

Smashwords Interview

Where did you grow up, and how did this influence your writing?
The first eight years of my life were spent in a mountain village in Calabria, the next three in an orphanage in a rust belt city in upstate New York, and from age eleven, I lived in Southern California when it was good to live there, the Pacific Ocean was a fresher, clearer shade of blue, and the San Fernando Valley was more Linda Barrett than Nora Desmond. My life was shaped by the diverse cultures of those areas and by the great waves of global migration following the Second World War of which I was a part. The challenges faced by immigrants to the United States prior to the war have been well documented. Postwar immigrants were confronted with a socioeconomic landscape much different than the one faced by the earlier arrivals. It's that difference that I am trying to tell a story about.
What motivated you to become an indie author?
I can be myself without having to worry about conforming to the rules of the gatekeepers.
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Where to find Franco Sendero online

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Where to buy in print

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Books

Tapestry by
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 65,290. Language: English. Published: December 28, 2016 . Categories: Fiction » Romance » New adult, Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Cultural interest, general
Los Angeles. 1969. Joe Martello’s teammate, Eddie Beltran, loses a game of dice to a violent drug dealer. Joe’s previously safe life suddenly becomes complicated by an irresistible attraction to the drug dealer’s wife, a beautiful young woman who has a series of odd markings on her neck, and by his willingness to risk his life to recover his mother’s bequest, which he had lost to the drug dealer.
Tiller of the Earth by
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 97,480. Language: English. Published: December 20, 2016 . Categories: Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Cultural interest, general, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Religious
Luciano Martello was born in the mountains of Calabria, a land as harsh as it is beautiful, into a desperate, stubborn poverty that was passed on from one generation to the next. The only way to escape the cycle of poverty is to emigrate to America. This is the story of an ordinary man with an unyielding determination to provide his family with a chance for a life of plenitude no matter the cost.
The Salvation of Salvino Quipal by
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 108,520. Language: English. Published: November 25, 2016 . Categories: Fiction » Romance » New adult, Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Hispanic & Latino
A strip club on a hot night in L.A. A dancer emerges from the swirling smoke and Salvino Quipal’s safe, comfortable life spent caring for his mother begins to unravel and he is plunged into a surreal world of violent bikers, gypsies, racist motel clerks, and one peculiar vagrant toucan. But isn’t that what he really always wanted?

Franco Sendero's tag cloud

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