![]() She sees migrant workers forced from their jobs by families arriving from the Dust Bowl, and camps of strikers-many of them US citizens-deported in the “voluntary repatriation” that sent at least 450,000 Mexicans and Mexican-Americans back to Mexico in the early 1930s. Esperanza balks at her new situation, but eventually becomes as accustomed to it as she was in her previous home, and comes to realize that she is still relatively privileged to be on a year-round farm with a strong community. ![]() Now they are indebted to the family who previously worked for them, for securing them work on a farm in the San Joaquin valley. But when her father dies, the post-Revolutionary culture and politics force her to leave with her mother for California. In 1930, Esperanza lives a privileged life on a ranch in Aguascalientes, Mexico. The author of Amelia and Eleanor Go for a Ride (1999) and Riding Freedom (1997) again approaches historical fiction, this time using her own grandmother as source material. ![]()
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