Migrant Daughter: Coming of Age as a Mexican American Woman

by Mario T. García and Frances Esquibel Tywoniak

Book Overview

Taking us from the open spaces of rural New Mexico and the fields of California's Great Central Valley to the intellectual milieu of student life in Berkeley during the 1950s, this memoir, based on an oral history by Mario T. Garc a, is the powerful and moving testimonio of a young Mexican American woman's struggle to rise out of poverty. Migrant Daughter is the coming-of-age story of Frances Esquibel Tywoniak, who was born in Spanish-speaking New...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520219155
• ISBN13: 9780520219151
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 267 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"