Coconuts & White Bread
Albert Rodriguez Jr.

The story of a first generation Mexican-American

PublishAmerica
April 2010
222 pages
ISBN: 144895245X
Paperback
$24.95

"You've come a long way from the cane fields," a friend once told me. He did not know how right he was. The journey from a five year old Mexican boy picking tomatoes in a migrant camp, to a junior high kid playing football in Texas was a long one. Take the gravel road that is Betito's life that runs across the American Southwest, and at one point, over him.