The Listen & Be Heard Hour for Readers & Writers
s2e24, s1e4
Joe R. Talaugon Sr.
Mestizo Through My Eyes
This book is about a man who grew up during a time when life in California was very hard, even though as a child he had no clue of the struggles his father and mother were going through. All he knew at that time was that he lived in an old house somewhere out on a farm where his farmworker father worked tilling the fields for the next crop to be grown. This is a story he put together from his notes, recall and his curiosity by simply listening to people talk over 40 years. It is mainly his experiences and as he grew up, he began questioning many things about life. He spent 40 years remembering to write down these questions which he had no answers to. It is a true-life story of his opinions and experiences, which in his simple ways he writes about. As he wrote this story he began to wonder if other people may feel the same way and wanted to share with them his realizations. In collecting his many notes and memories about his life, he also turned to his wife of 67 years to help with the recall of their memories together.
