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Chicana & Chicano Visions of the Americas #2: Crossing Vines
by Rigoberto Gonzalez
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ISBN13: 9780806135281 
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In the grim reality of Southern California's grape fields, even the sun is a dark spot. For the migrant grape pickers in Crossing Vines, Rigoberto Gonzalez's novel that spans a single workday, the sun is a constant, malevolent force. The characters endure back-breaking, monotonous work as they succumb to the whims of their corrupt bosses. Each minute the sun rises higher in the sky is an eternity. The textures, smells, sights, and emotions of their daily existences engulf the lives of the Mexican laborers. Scarce drinking water, sweltering heat, splintered fingers, contempt for the job, and violence toward one another compose their unflinchingly dark world. In Gonzalez's brutally honest story, the characters are propelled mercilessly by the rising crisis that envelops their interconnected stories. This uncompromisingly thought-provoking tale gives names and faces to the anonymous agricultural laborers, whose lives are like the tangled vines of the fruits of their labor. Not since Tomas Rivera's ...And the Earth Did Not Devour Him has a novel converged on the lives of migrant workers so profoundly. Like Rivera, Gonzalez employs nostalgia for Mexican tradition as he looks at the family feuds, economic injustices, and racism prevalent in the migrant worker experience.
Synopsis:
In the grim reality of Southern California's grape fields, even the sun is a dark spot. For the migrant grape pickers in Crossing Vines, Rigoberto Gonzalez's novel that spans a single workday, the sun is a constant, malevolent force. The characters endure back-breaking, monotonous work as they succumb to the whims of their corrupt bosses. Each minute the sun rises higher in the sky is an eternity.
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olivasdan, December 29, 2006 (view all comments by olivasdan)
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.
Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780806135281
- Author:
- Publisher:
- University of Oklahoma Press
- Location:
- Norman
- Subject:
- General
- Subject:
- Literary
- Subject:
- California
- Subject:
- Psychological fiction
- Subject:
- Viticulture
- Subject:
- Domestic fiction
- Subject:
- Mexican American agricultural laborers.
- Series:
- Chicana & Chicano Visions of the Americas
- Series Volume:
- 576v. 2
- Publication Date:
- September 2003
- Binding:
- Hardcover
- Language:
- English
- Illustrations:
- Y
- Pages:
- 214
- Dimensions:
- 8.44x5.86x.83 in. .90 lbs.
