Under the Feet of Jesus
by Helena Maria Viramontes
List Price:
Our Price: $7.68
You Save: $6.32 (45%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $3.09 (click here)
Category: Book
See more book details and other editions
Book Summary Information
Author: Helena Maria ViramontesEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1996-04-01
ISBN: 0452273870
Number of pages: 192
Publisher: Plume
Book Reviews of Under the Feet of Jesus
Book Review: Remembering My Roots
Summary: 5 Stars
I read this book in my eleventh grade. My English teacher knew that I liked to read, especially from Latino writers so he suggested I read Under the Feet of Jesus. What a great book that is. It's written by Helena Maria Viramontes. She is so detailed in her writing. She vividly decribes sensations and experiences. This story is about a young Mexican girl named Estrella who lives her life traveling with her mom, step dad, and four other siblings. They follow the agrucultural crops. Like in many other families, if you were old enough to carry a sack of cotton you were old enough to work. Estrella and her family moved from place to place working in strawberry fields, cotton fields, etc. Viramontes describes how even though her and her siblings were American born citizens, they still got nervous of seeing the immigration officers who are always looking for those persons without papers. They don't want immigrants living here illegally. It's true what Viramontes emphasizes, they have prejudice feelings toward immigrants who do nothing but work hard to make a better living for themselves. Immigrants are the ones who pick the vegetables they eat at dinner. They despise them. That's not fair because Mexican immigrants, as well as other immigrants, are the ones who make this nation grow. Viramontes describes Estrella's feelings toward her family, her life,this nation's hardships and the experience of her first love. I learned through this novel that this is what my father went through when he first came to this country. He still tells me what it was like to come as a stranger to this country carrying nothing but the clothes on his back and a couple of dollars in his pocket. Although he is now an American made citizen, he never forgets where he came from and what he had to go through to get where he is now. That is what he wants to teach his kids. To never forget where we come from and our Mexican roots. I will forever be grateful for his sacrifices, and my mother's, to have offered my siblings and I a better life and future for us. I recommend this book to everyone, whether you're Mexican or not.
Summary of Under the Feet of Jesus
A novel of cultural clashes, social injustice, and love amongst the migrant farm workers of contemporary California, as seen through the eyes of a young Mexican-American woman.
Christianity Books
Book Subjects
- Arts & Photography
- Biographies & Memoirs
- Business & Investing
- Children's Books
- Comics & Graphic Novels
- Computers & Internet
- Cooking, Food & Wine
- Entertainment
- Gay & Lesbian
- Health, Mind & Body
- History
- Home & Garden
- Horror
- Law
- Literature & Fiction
- Mystery & Thrillers
- Nonfiction
- Outdoors & Nature
- Parenting & Families
- Professional & Technical
- Reference
- Religion & Spirituality
- Romance
- Science
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Sports
- Teens
- Travel
Most talked about in Christianity Books
The Problem of Pain CDby C. S. Lewis
HarperAudio; Published: 2004-06-01; Audio CD; Book
Best price: $16.91
Price in other shops:
Catholicism: New Study Edition--Completely Revised and Updatedby Richard P. McBrien
HarperOne; Published: 1994-05-19; Paperback; Book
Best price: $21.00
Price in other shops:
Theirs Is the Kingdom: Celebrating the Gospel in Urban Americaby Robert D. Lupton
HarperOne; Published: 2011-10-11; Paperback; Book
Best price: $7.61
Price in other shops:
The Hidden Book in the Bibleby Richard Elliott Friedman
HarperOne; Published: 1999-08-18; Paperback; Book
Best price: $4.00
Price in other shops:
The Hidden Book in the Bibleby Richard Elliott Friedman
HarperOne; Published: 1998-09-22; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $3.31
Price in other shops:
Jesus: A Revolutionary Biographyby John Dominic Crossan
Harpercollins; Published: 1994-01; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $8.74
Price in other shops:
Exploring Heaven: What Great Christian Thinkers Tell Us About Our Afterlife with Godby Arthur O. Roberts
HarperSanFrancisco; Published: 2003-08-01; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $5.99
Price in other shops:
THE PROBLEM OF PAINby C. S. Lewis
Fontana; Published: 1979; Paperback; Book
New Testament Greek for Beginnersby J. Gresham Machen
Prentice Hall; Published: 1923-03-01; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $74.00
Price in other shops:
Mere Christianityby C. S. Lewis
Prentice Hall & IBD; Published: 1978-09-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $2.93
Similar Books and other products
Autobiography of a Brown Buffaloby Oscar Zeta Acosta
Vintage; Published: 1989-07-17; Paperback; Book
Best price: $8.50
Price in other shops:
Ceremony: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)by Leslie Marmon Silko
Penguin Books; Published: 2006-12-26; Paperback; Book
Best price: $8.98
Price in other shops:
Down These Mean Streetsby Piri Thomas
Vintage; Published: 1997-11-25; Paperback; Book
Best price: $7.87
Price in other shops:
Rain Godby Arturo Islas
Harper Perennial; Published: 1991-09-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $6.46
Price in other shops:
No-No Boyby John Okada
Univ of Washington Pr; Univ of Washington Pr; Published: 1978-02; Paperback; Book
Best price: $8.95
Price in other shops:
So Far from God: A Novelby Ana Castillo
W. W. Norton & Company; Published: 2005-06-17; Paperback; Book
Best price: $6.98
Price in other shops:
...y no se lo tragó la tierra / ...And the Earth Did Not Devour Himby Tomás Rivera
Arte Publico Pr; Published: 1995-05-31; Paperback; Book
Best price: $6.75
Price in other shops:
Tropic of Orangeby Karen Tei Yamashita
Coffee House Press; Published: 1997-09-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $8.22
Price in other shops:
Borderlands/ La Frontera: The New Mestiza, Third Editionby Gloria Anzaldúa
Aunt Lute Books; Published: 2007-06-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $14.23
Price in other shops:
Woman Hollering Creek: And Other Storiesby Sandra Cisneros
Vintage; Published: 1992-03-03; Paperback; Book
Best price: $6.08
Price in other shops: