A Village in the Fields, A Novel
By Patty Enrado.
Description
Fiction. Asian & Asian American Studies. Filipino American Studies. A retired Filipino farm worker looks back on his long and costly struggle for civil rights. Fausto Empleo is the last manong—one of the first wave of Filipinos immigrating to the United States in the 1920s and 1930s—at the home for retired farm workers in the agricultural town of Delano, California. Battling illness and feeling isolated in the retirement village built by the United Farm Workers Union, Fausto senses it's time to die. But he cannot reconcile his boyhood dream of coming to the "land ...
ISBN(s)
0996351701, 9780996351706
