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Seventeen-year-old Jane’s a very brave boy. And a very difficult girl. She’ll become a remarkable woman, an icon of her century, but that’s a long way off. A tomato-picking, dust bowl immigrant from Texas to California, Jane is manipulated into a terrible fight with her parents, leading her to leave her father for dead in an irrigation ditch. She steals her mother's Ford and escapes to Depression-era San Francisco, where she fakes her way into work as a newspaper copy boy. Everything’s looking up. Freed by her false male identity, she’s climbing the ladder at the paper, winning validation, ski
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