America Is in the Heart: A Personal History

First published in 1943, this classic memoir by well-known Filipino poet Carlos Bulosan describes his boyhood in the Philippines, his voyage to America, and his years of hardship and despair as an itinerant laborer following the harvest trail in the rural West.

ISBN-13: 9780295993539

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: University of Washington Press

Publication Date: 04-01-2014

Pages: 368

Product Dimensions: 8.50h x 5.40w x 1.10d

Series: Classics of Asian American Literature

Carlos Bulosan(1913 - 1956) was an English-language Filipino novelist and poet. Born in the Philippines, he immigrated to the United States at age seventeen and worked as a farmworker, dishwasher, and ultimately, as a labor organizer in both Washington and California.