In the waning months of World War II, a worker falls from the scaffolds of Richmond Shipyard #2. His orphaned son is sent to the crowded home of Portuguese immigrants. Against a backdrop of family battles, three American wars, and a Portuguese revolution, they struggle to keep their heritage alive for the future while leaving its scars in the past.
Volta Portugal is a vivid historical record of the San Francisco Bay Area in the 20th Century, a folkloric dance through places and events where immigrants cling to their roots and discover what it means to be American. And where an immigrant son might outgrow the pockmarked violence of his upbringing to discover what it means to be a father himself.

Brad Angeja’s grandparents immigrated from Portugal in the early 1900s. He grew up in Portuguese-American communities of the San Francisco Bay Area, including the East Bay where he was born. After studying English Literature and Portuguese Language at UCLA, he returned home to earn his medical degree in San Francisco, where he lives with his wife and two children and is a practicing cardiologist.

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From an online reviewer at Amazon:

A wonderful trip down Bay Area history from World War II through the 1970s, the story of this one immigrant family captures not only the social context that all Americans experienced, but also the challenges of second- and third-generation immigrant children assimilating into an ever-changing society and the tugs and pulls on the family. The author’s style is engaging, so one does not want to put the book down. Lots of Portuguese culture and lots of details of Bay Area culture and favorite pastimes that are long gone.

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