Most Californians have a rough idea there are hundreds of thousands of Mexicans picking our crops during harvest season, but the details of their lives are a little hazy unless we live in farm country. The details are what make the book "Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies" a provocative read. To study the human cost of the way we farm today, UC Berkeley anthropologist Seth Holmes strapped on a backpack and traveled with Triqui Indians between their home towns in Oaxaca and the farms of the Western U.S.
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