| Book Reviews | The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 130.4

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Espejos y Ventanas: Historias Orales de Trabajadores Agrícolas Mexicanos y Sus Familias/Mirrors and Windows: Oral Histories of Mexican Farmworkers and Their Families. Edited by Mark Lyons and August Tarrier. (Philadelphia: New City Community Press, 2004. 317p. Illustrations. In both Spanish and English. $20.)
Making ends meet has always been difficult for poor Mexican farmers, and for many, immigration to the United States has offered an alternative that despite the danger seems worth the effort. In Espejos y Ventanas, Mark Lyons and August Tarrier relate the experience of Mexican immigrants in the context of their lives working on the mushroom farms in eastern Pennsylvania.	1
The book is composed of eighteen interviews with immigrants living and working on the farms around Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. These oral histories recall the subject's border crossing, work, and the adjustment to life in an Anglo-dominated society. The interviews reveal the untold stories of these unique individuals. Unique, because who but someone special would risk everything to find a better way of life? Those who were complacent and satisfied with their position in life have stayed in Mexico. All the oral histories in the book speak to the courage and resiliency of those mojados who entered the United States in search of opportunity.	. . .

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