Read Your Way Around the World is a series exploring the globe through books.
The San Francisco Bay Area is anything but a monoculture.
Go to San Francisco, hop across the Bay Bridge into Oakland, then head up into Richmond or down to Hayward, and the landscape around you — the people, the food, the particular cadence of walk and talk — will morph.
The Bay Area is known for starting shit.
The Bay Area is unafraid to be first.
Persons:
—, Jack London’s, John Steinbeck’s
Locations:
San Francisco Bay, San Francisco, Oakland, Richmond, Hayward, John Steinbeck’s Salinas