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The Dunne family, driven from their Oklahoma farm during the droughts of the 1930s, head for California where they are subjected to the abuses of the migrant farm worker system, and join with their fellow immigrants to force improvements.

After learning that she needs a liver transplant and that her time may be limited, Callie Vanetta decides to move out to her late grandparents' farm, which hasn't worked in years. Callie fears that making the farm operational may be too much work; but things look up when a handsome, mysterious stranger offers to trade work for shelter. What initially seemed like an ideal temporary situation begins to look more permanent, and Callie has to try and...

Novel about the plight of American farmers who were forced off their farms by drought and foreclosure during the 1930's.

""Her immediate concern was money." So begins the first story in Manuel Mu�noz's dazzling new collection. In it, Delfina has moved from Texas to California's Central Valley with her husband and small son, and her isolation and desperation force her to take a risk that ends in profound betrayal. These exquisite stories are mostly set in the 1980s in the small towns that surround Fresno. With an unflinching hand, Mu�noz depicts the Mexican and Mexican...