Interviews with nine children of Hispanic migrant farm workers reveal some of their struggles, such as the long hours in the fields and the language barriers at school, and their aspirations for a better life.
S. Beth Atkin is a graduate of Barnard College and started a career as a photographer while assisting on photo shoots for publications including Time, Life, Sports Illustrated, Smithsonian. In 1988 she started a commercial and editorial photography business and moved to California. Her clients have included: Digital Equipment, Pebble Beach Company, Cellular One, National Geographic, San Francisco Chronicle, Cycle World, Houghton-Mifflin, Scholastic Inc., The U.S. Open, Nike, and The Nation.
Atkin lectures about youth issues, her books and photography, continues to do editorial photography and consults, volunteers, and donates her work to at-risk programs for youth and non-profit organizations.
This book is a mixture of stories from Mexican immigrants and their lives growing up and moving and becoming part of the country. There are multiple different points of views and different lifestyles incorporated into the book. This book interested me because you never hear about the lives of immigrants you always hear about how they shouldn't hear or how they are taking our jobs. So it was very interesting to hear about how difficult their lives are. I would recommend this book to people that may need an interesting topic to study about or people who like to read about different cultures. I would also suggest this book to people that want to learn more about immigrants into the U.S. This book may just show them that the immigrants aren't that bad