Under the Feet of Jesus

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 gir