Under the Feet of Jesus

Under the Feet of Jesus

A moving and powerful novel about the lives of the men, women, and children who endure a second-class existence and labor under dangerous conditions as migrant workers in Californiaâ€™s fields.

â€œViramontes depicts this world with sensuous physicality...working firmly in the social-realist vein of Steinbeckâ€™sÂ The Grapes of WrathÂ and Upton Sinclairâ€™sÂ The Jungle.â€â€”Publishers Weekly

At the center of this powerful tale is Estrella, a girl about to cross the perilous border to womanhood. What she knows of life comes from her mother, who has survived abandonment by her husband in a land that treats her as if she were invisible, even though she and her children pick the crops of the farms that feed its people. But within Estrella, seeds of growth and change are stirring. And in the arms of Alejo, they burst into a full, fierce flower as she tastes the joy and pain of first love. Pushed to the margins of society, she learns to fight back and is able to help the young farmworker she loves when his ambitions and very life are threatened in a harvest of death.
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Infused with the beauty of the California landscape and shifting splendors of the passing seasons juxtaposed with the bleakness of poverty, this vividly imagined novel is worthy of the people it celebrates and whose story it tells so magnificently. The simple lyrical beauty of Viramontesâ€™ prose, her haunting use of image and metaphor, and the urgency of her themes all announce Under the Feet of Jesus as a landmark work of American fiction.

Winner of the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature
Selected as the Univesity of Oregon's 2019 Common Reading book
Country USA
Brand Plume
Manufacturer Plume
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 21124717
Color Yellow
ReleaseDate 1996-04-01
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780452273870

Country	USA
Brand	Plume
Manufacturer	Plume
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	21124717
Color	Yellow
ReleaseDate	1996-04-01
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780452273870

Under the Feet of Jesus

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