Title: Barefoot heart
Description: Autobiography. Latino/a Studies. BAREFOOT HEART is a vividly told autobiographical account of the life of a child growing up in a family of migrant farm workers. Elva Trevino Hart was born in south Texas to Mexican immigrants and spent her childhood moving back and forth between Texas and Minnesota, eventually leaving that world to earn a master's degree in computer science/engineering. This is a beautiful book, one many of us teaching Laino/a memoir and autobiography have long been waiting for. It is here at last, dear reader, in your hands. To be read and reread, savored to the last word. I extend a heartfelt welcome to the author and her beautiful book - Virgil Suarez, author of HAVANA THURSDAYS.
Subjects: Social life and customs, Mexican American women, United States, Mexican Americans, Migrant agricultural laborers, Memoir, Biography, Reading Level-Grade 7, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 8, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 12, Child migrant agricultural laborers, Large type books, Hart, elva treviño, Hart, elva treviño , 1949-, Mexican american women--biography, Mexican americans--biography, Mexican americans--social life and customs, Migrant agricultural laborers--united states--biography, Migrant agricultural laborers--social life and customs, Migrant agricultural laborers--united states--social life and customs, Mexican american children, Mexican american children--biography, E184.m5 h365 1999, 973/.046872/0092 b
Places: Texas, United States
People: Elva Treviño Hart
Time periods: Twentieth Century