Farmworker's Daughter; Growing up Mexican in America

Mexican American Agricultural workers

The author reveals what it was like to grow up as a Mexican immigrant in a farming community during the turbulent 1960s. She recalls her early struggles to learn English, to fit in with schoolmates with their Barbie dolls and cupcakes, to win approval, and to bridge the tensions between home life and the public world to which she was drawn.
As her mother dreams of owning a house with her new farmworker husband, Rose perfects her English and writes for the school newspaper, nurturing dreams of her own that will eventually take her far from her life as a farmworker’s daughter.

Guilbault, Rose Castillo

Farmworker's Daughter, available at Yakima Valley Libraries in print format.

Heyday Books (April 2005)

2005

English

Biography