Title: The Grapevine Diaries
Description: You've heard of a winemaker, but have you heard of a grapemaker? This story is the untold story of wine -- the story of the immigrant field laborers that work the vineyards and grow the grapes. Told from the perspective of an American woman who spent her mid-20's working in vineyards alongside Mexican coworkers, The Grapevine Diaries is a series of anecdotes, journal entries, poems and mini-essays that provide a unique and candid insight into agriculture, immigration, and a job that goes beneath the skin and into the sticky juice within.
Subjects: Personal memoirs, Agriculture, Emigration and immigration, Vines and vineyards, Wine industry
Places: Napa Valley (Calif.), Sonoma Valley (Calif.)
Time periods: present day, California