num_pages: 224
description: In this memoir, Guilbault invites us into her girlhood, revealing what it was like to grow up as a Mexican immigrant in a farming community during the turbulent 1960s. With openness, courage, and charm, 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 the home life and the public world to which she was drawn.
language: English
title: Farmworker's Daughter: Growing Up Mexican in America
titlecomplete: Farmworker's Daughter: Growing Up Mexican in America
genres: Biography Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 83
publisher: Heyday