The author describes the many challenges he faced as the son of Mexican American migrant workers during his quest to continue his education and become an academic success, overcoming poverty, family turmoil, guilt, and self-doubt.
This book is a sequel to The Circuit (1997) and Breaking Through (2001), which covered Mexican-born Jiménez’s childhood.
Featured in Volume I, Issue 4 of WOW Review.
- ISBN: 9780618038510
- Author: Jiménez, Francisco
- Published: 2008, Houghton Mifflin
- Themes: challenges, cultural heritage, education, Family, memoir, Mexican-American, Migrant laborers, Overcoming obstacles, Poverty
- Descriptors: Biography - Autobiography- Memoir, Latinx in US, United States, Young Adult (ages 14-18)
- No. of pages: 208