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Luke (korrick) | 2004 comments Fruit Fields in My Blood: Okie Migrants in the West, Toby Sonneman, photographs by Rick Steigmeyer, 1992, United States, NONFICTION

"...Necessity as well as a desire for experience took her and her husband, Rick Steigmeyer, despite college educations, to work the fields and follow the migrant stream for fifteen years. With a journalistic eye, she writes lovingly and intimately of America's "Okie" migrant work force, created by the Depression 1930s and currently near demise..."

(N.C., p. 377)


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