La Posada and Other Stories: Backroads of America in Bloomington, MN

A collection of stories that includes the novella-length La Posada, the story of a group of Mexican-American farmworkers in the Salinas Valley of California who defy their corporate bosses to form a union and create their own farming cooperative. Other stories deal with the pain of adolescent love, rural eccentrics of the South and the death of a loved one.
Author Biography: Robert Miskimon was born and raised in Richmond, Va. and now lives in Washington State. During a long career as a journalist, he covered farm labor in the Salinas Valley of California. His previously published novels are A Wind Is Rising, What Death Can Touch, and Plastic Jesus.