America Is in the Heart : A Personal History (Washington Paperbacks, Wp-68) (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of America Is in the Heart : A Personal History (Washington Paperbacks, Wp-68) Sunday, August 2 2009.

• First published in 1946, this autobiography of the well-known Filipino poet describes his boyhood in the Philippines, his voyage to America, and his years of hardship and despair as an itinerant laborer following the harvest trail in the rural West. Bulosan does not spare the reader any of the horrors that accompanied the migrant's life; but his quiet, stoic voice is the most convincing witness to those terrible events.

Shelfari edited the contributors of America Is in the Heart : A Personal History (Washington Paperbacks, Wp-68) Wednesday, July 29 2009.

• Added a contributor: Carlos Bulosan: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of America Is in the Heart : A Personal History (Washington Paperbacks, Wp-68) Thursday, July 16 2009.

• I WAS the first to see him coming slowly through the tall grass in the dry bottom of the river.