Book description
This is the Hispanic Roots, an all-American story of poverty, immigration, struggle and success. It focuses on three generations of VillaseƱor's kin, their spiritual and cultural roots in Mexico, their immigration to California and their overcoming the poverty, prejudice and economic exploitation. It is the warm-hearted, humorous and tragic, trueā¦
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1 author picked Rain of Gold as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Villasenorās Rain of Gold is the first of a trilogy about his family's migration to the United States in the early part of the 20th Century.
Published in 1991, I was fascinated by the bookās rich detail, the numerous layers of stories about his family regarding their life in Mexico, their decision to leave, the challenges they faced finding work and struggling to fit into the United States.
The book covers his parentsā lives as children and the trials their families faced in surviving the Mexican Revolution. His parents meet when they are very young and eventually move to Carlsbad,ā¦
From Louis' list on Mexican migration to the United States.
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