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The voices are defiant and nuanced, aware of the human complexities that spill across bureaucratic categories and arbitrary borders. - Siddartha Deb, The Baffler A deeply moving tribute to the lives of the California farm workers, and their journey from Mexican villages into the cruel machinery of American agribusiness. - Hector Tobar, author of Deep Down Dark Cumulatively, these portraits form a nuanced mosaic of life in the fields-the good, the bad, the mundane, the tragic and the heroic. - Miriam Pawel, author of The Crusades of Cesar Chavez Not just an intimate, but an insider, look at the lives of California's farmworkers - Elaine Elinson, San Francisco Chronicle

The voices are defiant and nuanced, aware of the human complexities that spill across bureaucratic categories and arbitrary borders. - Siddartha Deb, The Baffler

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Gabriel Thompson is an independent journalist who has written for the New York Times, Harper's, New York, Slate, Mother Jones, Virginia Quarterly Review, and the Nation. His articles about labor and immigration have won a number of prizes, including the Studs Terkel Media Award and the Sidney Award. His most recent book is America's Social Arsonist: Fred Ross and Grassroots Organizing in the Twentieth Century.

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