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In the grim reality of Southern California’s grape fields, even the sun is a dark spot. For the migrant grape pickers in Crossing Vines, Rigoberto González’s novel that spans a single workday, the sun is a constant, malevolent force. The characters endure back-breaking, monotonous work as they succumb to the whims of their corrupt bosses. Each minute the sun rises higher in the sky is an eternity.
The textures, smells, sights, and emotions of their daily existences engulf the lives of the Mexican laborers. Scarce drinking water, sweltering heat, splintered fingers, contempt for the job, and violence toward one another compose their unflinchingly dark world. In González’s brutally honest story, the characters are compelled forward mercilessly by the rising crisis that envelops their interconnected stories. This uncompromisingly thought-provoking tale gives names and faces to the anonymous agricultural laborers, whose lives are like the tangled vines of the fruits of their labor.
Not since Tomás Rivera’s . . . And the Earth Did Not Devour Him has a novel converged on the lives of migrant workers so profoundly. Like Rivera, González employs nostalgia for Mexican tradition as he looks at the family feuds, economic injustices, and racism prevalent in the migrant worker experience.
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Rigoberto González is the author of So Often the Pitcher Goes to Water until It Breaks, a selection of the National Poetry Series, and Soledad Sigh-Sighs, a book for children. The recipient of a Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and of writing residencies in Spain, Brazil, and Costa Rica, he currently lives in New York City.
Rigoberto González, paying homage to Tomás Rivera's 1971 . . . y no se lo tragó la tierra, brings the Chicano novel back to its source. In a debut that distills a unique poet's sensibility, this novel intertwines the sixties and nineties to explore farm workers' lives and their experience with la huelga. González courageously tackles issues such as labor, assimilation, sexuality, and the tension between the self and the world—a milestone!"—Ilan Stavans, author of The Hispanic Condition and On Borrowed Words
"Crossing Vines is a long day's journey into night, a skillful and realistic view into the work and lives of a crew of grape pickers. A generation ago Tomás Rivera opened our eyes to the lives of migrant workers. Rigoberto González brilliantly continues his legacy." —Rudolfo Anaya, author of Bless Me, Ultima and Zia Summer
"Staying awake through most of the night was a habit don Nico kept from his days as a watchman at the funeral parlor in Monterrey. ... A few hours of sleep were all he needed. ... At sixty-five, an old man like don Nico could put in a hard day's labor in the grape fields and be ready to work the next day with little rest. In the meantime he waited. He watched. He listened."—from Crossing Vines
"Crossing Vines is a long day's journey into night, a skillful and realistic view into the work and lives of a crew of grape pickers. A generation ago Tomás Rivera opened our eyes to the lives of migrant workers. Rigoberto González brilliantly continues his legacy." —Rudolfo Anaya, author of Bless Me, Ultima and Zia Summer
"Staying awake through most of the night was a habit don Nico kept from his days as a watchman at the funeral parlor in Monterrey. ... A few hours of sleep were all he needed. ... At sixty-five, an old man like don Nico could put in a hard day's labor in the grape fields and be ready to work the next day with little rest. In the meantime he waited. He watched. He listened."—from Crossing Vines
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