Under the Feet of Jesus by Helena Maria Viramontes
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Author: Helena Maria Viramontes | PAge: 194 | Year: 1996



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Winner of the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature
"Stunning."-Newsweek
With the same audacity with which John Steinbeck wrote about migrant worker conditions in The Grapes of Wrath and T.C. Boyle in The Tortilla Curtain, Viramontes presents a moving and powerful vision of the lives of the men, women, and children who endure a second-class existence and labor under dangerous conditions in California's fields.

At the center of this powerful tale is Estrella, a girl about to cross the perilous border to womanhood. What she knows of life comes from her mother, who has survived abandonment by her husband in a land that treats her as if she were invisible, even though she and her children pick the crops of the farms that feed its people. But within Estrella, seeds of growth and change are stirring. And in the arms of Alejo, they burst into a full, fierce flower as she tastes the joy and pain of first love. Pushed to the...
Category:Hispanic American Literature, Hispanic American Literature & Fiction, Contemporary Christian Fiction


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