{"product_id":"9781101078235","title":"Under the Feet of Jesus","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Stunning.”\u003c\/b\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith the same audacity with which John Steinbeck wrote about migrant worker conditions \u003ci\u003ein The Grapes of Wrath\u003c\/i\u003e and T.C. Boyle in \u003ci\u003eThe Tortilla Curtain\u003c\/i\u003e, Viramontes presents a moving and powerful vision of the lives of the men, women, and children who endure a second-class existence and labor under dangerous conditions in California's fields.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAt the center of this powerful tale is Estrella, a girl about to cross the perilous border to womanhood. What she knows of life comes from her mother, who has survived abandonment by her husband in a land that treats her as if she were invisible, even though she and her children pick the crops of the farms that feed its people. But within Estrella, seeds of growth and change are stirring. And in the arms of Alejo, they burst into a full, fierce flower as she tastes the joy and pain of first love. Pushed to the margins of society, she learns to fight back and is able to help the young farmworker she loves when his ambitions and very life are threatened in a harvest of death.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eInfused with the beauty of the California landscape and shifting splendors of the passing seasons juxtaposed with the bleakness of poverty, this vividly imagined novel is worthy of the people it celebrates and whose story it tells so magnificently. The simple lyrical beauty of Viramontes' prose, her haunting use of image and metaphor, and the urgency of her themes all announce \u003ci\u003eUnder the Feat of Jesus\u003c\/i\u003e as a landmark work of American fiction.","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47118934114544,"sku":"9781101078235","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781101078235_p0.jpg?v=1763684908","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781101078235","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}