The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child

Francisco Jiménez

Oct 2011 · Blackstone Audio Inc. · Narrated by Adrian Vargas

About this audiobook

Francisco Jim├®nez writes of his childhood growing up in an immigrant Mexican family. His narrative is simple, as from a child's point of view, but that same simplicity packs the power of a highly skilled storyteller. Beautifully and authentically rendered by actor and playwright Adrian Vargas, these twelve stories tell of the almost unendurable journey most migrant campesinos undertake to find the American Dream. The recording concludes with an afterword recorded by the author.

Ratings and reviews

right now our teacher Anne Pihno from LGGC is reading this book for us it's perfect , very interesting wraps and connects in reading. the beautiful It's a story that many of our classmates feel like they lived it too.

I like it very much that I've reared it twice.

About the author

Francisco Jiménez emigrated from Tlaquepaque, Mexico, to California, where he worked for many years in the fields with his family. He received both his master’s degree and his PhD from Columbia University and is now chairman of the Modern Languages and Literature Department at Santa Clara University. He is the award-winning author of The Circuit, Breaking Through, La Mariposa, and others. He lives in Santa Clara, California, with his family.