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    Review: Luis Valdez's 'Valley of the Heart' shares an immigrant story from California's past

    by Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times Nov 12, 2018 3 minutes

    In Luis Valdez's "Valley of the Heart," two immigrant families - one of Mexican heritage, the other of Japanese - are living side by side on a Northern California farm at the start of World War II.

    Their lives become entwined not just through marriage but through the plight of new Americans forced to overcome painful obstacles and setbacks in their adopted country.

    Valdez, author of "Zoot Suit," a landmark drama that helped launch the Chicano theater

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