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At the age of fourteen Francisco Jimenez together with his older brotherRoberto and his mother are caught by la migra. Forced to leave their home theentire family travels all night for twenty hours by bus arriving at the U.S.and Mexican border in Nogales Arizona. In the months and years that followFrancisco his mother and father and his seven brothers and sister not onlystruggle to keep their family together but also face crushing poverty longhours of labor and blatant prejudice. How they sustain their hope theirgoodheartedness and tenacity is revealed in this moving sequel to The Circuit.Without bitterness or sentimentality Francisco Jimenez finishes telling thestory of his youth. «
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