Book on life in the old Panama Canal Zone written by a person who was raised there:
MY PARADISE LOST: Misadventures to manhood in the Panama Canal Zone. By
Brian W Allen. Brian Allen can’t go home again. There were no rich, no
poor, and no unemployment in the Panama Canal Zone. Yet his utopian town
was nullified by treaty, bulldozed to the ground, and the dead have
been exhumed. Brian tells his story, warts and all, with humor and
compassion. My Paradise Lost is about a boy growing to manhood in the
last golden years of the Canal Zone, the turbulent '60s and '70s. It was
an innocent, Huck Finn in the rain forest existence. His township of
Coco Solo was a blue collar world of mangoes and maids, exotica and
history. Misadventure abounds, get lost in the swamp, tip the stripper,
and poke the jaguar. Teen romance is just as awkward in paradise as
anywhere. There is parental conflict, life, death, and the ghost of Jim
Crow nationalistic racism. At the best time of his life, Brian is
involved in a fatal car accident that puts him in the custody of the
intimidating Guardia Nacional. His fate rests in the courts of a
dictatorship whose El Supremo is bent on sovereignty over his Canal Zone
home. You will feel the tropical sun, splash in the canal, ache for
love, and cry for the dead. Photos and popular local recipes are
included. Available on Amazon/Kindle
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