I LOVED this book. The characters are real and sharply drawn. The story is a compelling one with plenty of surprises, but never the "miraculous" variety...it's so much more believable.

I LOVED this book. The characters are real and sharply drawn. The story is a compelling one with plenty of surprises, but never the "miraculous" variety...it's so much more believable.

Lawrence Caroff Jane Rosenthal
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Great women

What we love about Sophie Paquette

Posted October 25, 2021

When celebrating the voices of young female poets, we cannot leave Sophie Paquette out of the conversation. Her work is avant garde and fresh, transcending traditional and established forms ofREAD MORE

A college grad honored her parents with a photo shoot in the fields where they worked

Posted June 19, 2021

by Vanessa Romo When relaying why she chose the farm fields for her college graduation photo shoot, Jennifer Rocha explained it’s because that’s where her parents “sacrificed their backs, theirREAD MORE

Activist Dolores Huerta — still amazing at 90

Posted October 15, 2020

As some of my characters are farmworkers or children of farmworkers, this article about Dolores Huerta is not only relevant, but timely. Oh by the way, I organized a grapeREAD MORE