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Description: The novel When Water Was Everywhere emerged from days of crisscrossing the Los Angeles Basin by automobile—sometimes putting 15,000 to 20,000 miles a year on my car in the course of my work as an independent writer and corporate trainer.
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Available online at Amazon and Barnes & Noble on June 1, 2016
American immigrants, Mexican Californios, Tongva/Gabrieleno Indians and Spanish padres come to life in Barbara Crane’s imaginative re-telling of California’s Mexican era, set in what is now Long Beach and in the pueblo of Los Angeles. As the novel unfolds, its themes of loss, hope and redemption resonate from every page. "Here is the early Los Angeles basin before the American conquest, a portrait of the land and the people painted in brilliant colors … showing the emotions, environment and manmade objects
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Barbara E. Crane | Welcome