Chasing the Harvest

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