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DESCRIPTION:This event is a book launch and celebration of a new novel by Patty Enrado 
 about Filipino American farm workers.\n\nThe backdrop to Patty Enrado's 
 debut novel is a compelling but buried piece of American history: the 
 Filipino American contribution to the farm labor movement. 50 years ago, 
 September 8, 1965, Filipino farm workers walked out of the fields and 
 sparked the United Farm Workers Union movement.  \n\nAbout the Book:  A 
 Village in the Fields, A Novel\n\nFausto Empleo is the last manong—one of 
 the first wave of Filipinos immigrating to the United States in the 1920s 
 and 1930s— at the home for retired farm workers in the agricultural town 
 of Delano, California. Battling illness and feeling isolated in the 
 retirement village built by the United Farm Workers Union, Fausto senses 
 it’s time to die. But he cannot reconcile his boyhood dream of coming to 
 the “land of opportunity” with the years of bigotry and backbreaking 
 work in California’s fields. Then, his estranged cousin Benny comes with 
 a peace offering and tells Fausto that Benny’s son will soon visit—with 
 news that could change Fausto’s life.\n\nIn preparation for the impending 
 visit, Fausto forces himself to confront his past. Just as he was carving 
 out a modest version of the American Dream, he walked out of the vineyards 
 in 1965, in what became known as the Great Delano Grape Strikes. He threw 
 himself headlong into the long, bitter, and violent fight for farm 
 workers’ civil rights—but at the expense of his house and worldly 
 possessions, his wife and child, and his tightknit Filipino community, 
 including Benny.\n\n********\n\n\nTo write this novel, Patty Enrado 
 researched and interviewed Filipino farm laborers who were involved in the 
 labor movement including her own family members.  This intricately detailed 
 story of love, loss, and human dignity spans more than eight decades and 
 sweeps from the Philippines to the United States. In the vein of The Grapes 
 of Wrath, A Village in the Fields pays tribute to the sacrifices that 
 Filipino immigrant farm workers made to bring justice to the fields.\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/08/22/18776504.php
SUMMARY:Patty Enrado Book Launch--A Village in the Fields, A Novel
LOCATION:Eastwind Books of Berkeley\n2066 University Avenue (near 
 Shattuck)\nBerkeley, CA 94704
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/08/22/18776504.php
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