Calling the Doves/El canto de las palomas (English & Spanish Edition)

The poet Juan Felipe Herrera’s bilingual memoir paints a vivid picture of his migrant farmworker childhood in the fields of California. His rich, evocative prose re-creates the joy of eating under the open sky, celebrating at a fiesta with other farm families, and listening to his mother singing Mexican songs, and his father calling the doves. His parents taught him a love for life outdoors and handed down the precious gift of poetry.