Overview
El intenso relato del viaje de una familia a trav?s de los campos de California viviendo una vida en constante movimiento, de campos de fresa a campos de algod?n, y de campamentos a cobertizos de un ambiente.
Narrada por un joven que anhela estudiar y obtener el derecho de elegir un hogar, esta es una historia de supervivencia, fe y esperanza. Un viaje que abrir? el coraz?n y la mente de los lectores.
Francisco Jim?nez emigr? de Tlaquepaque, M?xico, a California, donde por muchos a?os trabaj? junto con su familia en los campos. Obtuvo una maestr?a y un doctorado en la Universidad de Columbia, siendo actualmente jefe del Departamento de Lenguajes Modernos y Literatura de la Universidad de Santa Clara, el escenario principal de Mas all? de m?. Ha recibido premios por sus obras Cajas de cart?n, Senderos fronterizos, La mariposa y M?s all? de m?. Reside con su familia en Santa Clara, California.
“‘La frontera’ . . . I heard it for the first time back in the late 1940s when Papa and Mama told me and Roberto, my older brother, that someday we would take a long trip north, cross la frontera, enter California, and leave our poverty behind.”
So begins this honest and powerful account of a family’s journey to the fields of California–to a life of constant moving, from strawberry fields to cotton fields, from picking grapes to topping carrots and thinning lettuce, from tent cities to one-room shacks. Seen through the eyes of a boy who longs for an education and the right to call one place home, this is a story of survival, faith, and hope. It is a journey that will open readers’ hearts and minds.
Francisco Jim?nez emigrated from Tlaquepaque, Mexico, to California, where he worked for many years in the fields with his family. He received both his master’s degree and his Ph.D. from Columbia University and is now chairman of the Modern Languages and Literature Department at Santa Clara University, the setting of much of Reaching Out. He is the award-winning author of The Circuit, Breaking Through, La Mariposa, and Reaching Out. He lives in Santa Clara, California, with his family.