{"product_id":"under-the-feet-of-jesus-9780452273870","title":"Under the Feet of Jesus","description":"\u003cb\u003eA moving and powerful novel about the lives of the men, women, and children who endure a second-class existence and labor under dangerous conditions as migrant workers in California's fields. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Viramontes depicts this world with sensuous physicality...working firmly in the social-realist vein of Steinbeck's \u003ci\u003eThe Grapes of Wrath\u003c\/i\u003e and Upton Sinclair's \u003ci\u003eThe Jungle\u003c\/i\u003e.\"--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt the center of this powerful tale is Estrella, a girl about to cross the perilous border to womanhood. What she knows of life comes from her mother, who has survived abandonment by her husband in a land that treats her as if she were invisible, even though she and her children pick the crops of the farms that feed its people. But within Estrella, seeds of growth and change are stirring. And in the arms of Alejo, they burst into a full, fierce flower as she tastes the joy and pain of first love. Pushed to the margins of society, she learns to fight back and is able to help the young farmworker she loves when his ambitions and very life are threatened in a harvest of death. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Infused with the beauty of the California landscape and shifting splendors of the passing seasons juxtaposed with the bleakness of poverty, this vividly imagined novel is worthy of the people it celebrates and whose story it tells so magnificently. The simple lyrical beauty of Viramontes' prose, her haunting use of image and metaphor, and the urgency of her themes all announce \u003ci\u003eUnder the Feet of Jesus\u003c\/i\u003e as a landmark work of American fiction. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature\u003cbr\u003eSelected as the Univesity of Oregon's 2019 Common Reading book\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Plume Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780452273870\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.15w x 0.54d","brand":"Helena Maria Viramontes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36637477634204,"sku":"9780452273870","price":14.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_5b310d75-f93f-4cd9-aa1f-4644513e0e96.jpg?v=1603844869","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/under-the-feet-of-jesus-9780452273870","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}