Tish, a teenager who has been enduring abuse from her adoptive stepfather since she was a small child, finally decides she must do something to stop him.

Raised in an orphanage, Joan Walker becomes a social outcast who discovers murder is a convenient solution and sweet revenge whenever anyone opposes her. When she learns Adam Sard, the man she loves is going to be married, Olga Johnson, a.k.a. Joan Walker, who has been sentenced to death by lethal injection for first degree murder, escapes from death row to prevent the marriage from taking place. Using aliases and disguises, she manages to elude the authorities. Jade Armstrong Otis is an investigative reporter for a Washington, D.C. newspaper. She is searching for the murderer of her grandmother whose death took place years ago in a Boston City hospital where Olga was employed. The trail leads her to the gambling Mecca of Las Vegas and Adam Sard.

A child advocate and juvenile criminologist advises parents on how to deal with even the most troubled children and how to avoid child-rearing mistakes

Cultural Writing. Memoir. FARMWORKER'S DAUGHTER is an elegantly written coming-of-age memoir, told through the often unheard voice of a Mexican immigrant girl. Guilbault captures in loving detail the sensations and smells of the scorching desert of Sonora, Mexico, her birthplace and the land most unrelenting yet comforting in her memory. She writes also about the tumultuous era of her high school years in California, where patriotism clashed with antiwar activism surrounding Vietnam and where the tensions within a small, rural community's stance on Cesar Chavez's farm labor movement were less explicit yet equally strong and divisive. FARMWORKER'S DAUGHTER presents an intimate view of the immigrant experience from a distinctly female and bicultural perspective. It is also a memorable portrait of one family's struggle to overcome cultural barriers and preserve the past while embracing a new life in America.

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