The author recalls the year when his farm worker parents settled down in the city so that he could go to school for the first time.

The author recalls the year when his farm worker parents settled down in the city so that he could go to school for the first time.

The story of Jimmy Santiago Baca, "winner of the Pushcart Prize and the American Book Award, ... called an heir to Pablo Neruda, ... [who] at the age of twenty-one ... was illiterate and facing five to ten years in a maximum-security prison for selling drugs."--Jacket.