The son of working-class Mexican immigrants flees a life of labor in fruit-packing plants to run in a Native American Marathon from Canada to Guatemala in this "stunning memoir that moves to the rhythm of feet, labor, and the many landscapes of the Americas" (Catriona Menzies-Pike, author of The Long Run ).
Growing up in Yakima, Washington, No lvarez worked at an apple-packing plant alongside his mother, who "slouched over a conveyor belt of fruit, shoulder to shoulder w.
The son of working-class Mexican immigrants flees a life of labor in fruit-packing plants to run in a Native American Marathon from Canada to Guatemala in this "stunning memoir that moves to the rhythm of feet, labor, and the many landscapes of the Americas" (Catriona Menzies-Pike, author of The Long Run )
