Inseparable

by Yunte Huang

  14. C. W. and S. D. Bunker, letter to Harrison Allen, April 1, 1874, UNCCH.

  EPILOGUE: MAYBERRY, USA

  1. Gustavo Pérez Firmat, A Cuban in Mayberry: Looking Back at America’s Hometown (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2014), p. 16.

  2. Andrew Hurley, Diners, Bowling Alleys, and Trailer Parks: Chasing the American Dream in Postwar Consumer Culture (New York: Basic Books, 2001), pp. 195–272.

  3. Sherwood Anderson, Poor White (New York: New Directions, 1993), pp. 44–45. Pérez Firmat, p. 45.

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