Jesusita
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.46 (660 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1937484335 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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jesusita Jesusita: Ronald RuizSometimes parents need to survive in ways that will often take their toll on not only themselves as a parent but their children too. As you meet Jesusita an immigrant born to poverty and despair her mode for survival and dealing with her four children would appear far from loving, nurturing and at times a. Raw and honest story of immigrants to America from Mexico in the 19Raw and honest story of immigrants to America from Mexico in the 1940s and 1950s Sherrey Meyer Often I will select a book based on its cover or the language on the back cover. But when you're reviewing books, often the cover art or design and the blurb from the back cover are not available. You receive the description or synopsis, and sometimes a cover image. You make a decision and hope it's a book you'll enjoy readin. 0s and 1950s Often I will select a book based on its cover or the language on the back cover. But when you're reviewing books, often the cover art or design and the blurb from the back cover are not available. You receive the description or synopsis, and sometimes a cover image. You make a decision and hope it's a book you'll enjoy readin. Corinne Campos Rodrigues said Through the book there are a few subplots – the story of a 6 year old girl who being paid for sexual favours by migrant workers. When migrant worker Jesusita’s husband is killed, she has to struggle to feed and look after four children. She attempts to make a living picking fruit in California. Her new situation causes her to be frustrated and often harsh with her children, especially her daughter, Paulina.Her life changes when she has a deeply r
--Stacia Levy, San Francisco Book Review. The setting, the Central Valley of California, and its small towns and farms, is also deeply interwoven into the story, especially in the importance of the church to social life. This book pulled me in from the start with Jesusita's and Father Montes's compelling characters. The dynamics of religious fanaticism are also well portrayed It is ultimately Jesusita's fanaticism that makes her a classic tragic figure who gains great heights--within her social context--but which also leads to her fall. Both are deeply flawed, but also sympathetic
Though she finds support from Padre Montes at St. Jesusita, alone and impoverished, struggles to keep her four young children together. Angie, the young daughter of an illiterate and unmarried mother, knows only one way to make money. Jesusita is the story of immigrants--legal and illegal--trying to survive in California in the years after World War II. Teresa's Catholic Church, her faith won't solve her problems, especially those with her daughter, Paulina. Far from home, Filipino laborers are denied by law any contact with white women. And Felix, abandoned by his mother and separated from his only brother, is placed in a foster home on an isolated ranch. The interrelated lives of these people provide a complex, sometimes violent, and often tragic image of American poverty within the nation's postwar boom.