Under the Feet of Jesus (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
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- Author: Helena María Viramontes
- First Published: 1995
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Family or family life, United States or Americans, Ethnic groups, Minorities, Sick persons, Mexican Americans, Migrant labor, Latinos, Poisons or poisoning
Under the Feet of Jesus is a novella telling a powerful story about California's migrant farmworkers. Viramontes has dedicated this work to her parents, who met while picking cotton, and to the memory of César Chávez, the revered leader of the United Farm Workers. The work centers on Estrella, a thirteen-year-old girl traveling with her family from job to job in California's central San Joaquin Valley. Estrella's father has abandoned the family of five children, and her mother is pregnant again by the seventy-three-year-old Perfecto Flores, who drives them to their new job in...
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