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...