"A collection of linked stories set in the small towns surrounding Fresno depicts the struggles of Mexican American farmworkers and their families, their messy and sometimes violent realities tempered by moments of tenderness and care."--

"'La frontera'... I heard it for the first time back in the late 1940s when Papa and Mama told me and Roberto, my older brother, that someday we would take a long trip north, cross la front era, enter California, and leave our poverty behind." So begins this honest and powerful account of a family's journey to the fields of California - to a life of constant moving, from strawberry fields to cotton fields, from tent cities to one-room shacks, from...

The classic tale of the Joad family and their struggles to survive in the 1930's dust bowl conditions of a whole generation of farmers, who went to California to seek a better life.

Explores a migrant family's experiences moving through labor camps, facing poverty and impermanence, and discusses how they endure through faith, hope, and back-breaking work.