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Chicana & Chicano Visions of the Americas #2: Crossing Vines
Rigoberto Gonzalez

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olivasdan, December 29, 2006

Review by Daniel Olivas

If you were unfamiliar with Rigoberto Gonzalez, it wouldn't take many pages of reading his first novel, "Crossing Vines," to suspect that his prior book was one of poetry, not prose. Each sentence, every paragraph, all chapters possess the clarity and music of poetry even in recounting the often harsh and always difficult lives of a crew of grape pickers in California. In a series of vignettes focusing on different characters--young, old, gay, straight, male, female--Gonzalez allows us into the lives and painful pasts of these workers. Gonzalez avoids the melodramatic and cliche when it would be easy to fall into such traps. The final result is a mosaic of disparate and sometimes desperate lives that all connect to the backbreaking farmworker experience. This is a poetic, powerful first novel.

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