Under the Feet of Jesus

Winner of the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature

“Stunning.”—Newsweek

With the same audacity with which John Steinbeck wrote about migrant worker conditions in The Grapes of Wrath and T.C. Boyle in The Tortilla Curtain, Viramontes presents a moving and powerful vision of the lives of the men, women, and children who endure a second-class existence and labor under dangerous conditions in California's fields.

At the center of this powerful tale is Estrella, a girl about to cross the perilous ...