My grandfather kept ledgers logging every day he worked in the U.S. The dry entries — '18 boxes of cherries, $4 per box' — tell a story of success against the odds.
My grandmother told me about the missing notebook. It had a blue cover, she said, and was unmarked except for “cuaderno de trabajo' written in the italicized superscript taught in elementary schools around Mexico. Kept by my grandfather when he labored on farms and orchards in the United States, the notebook recorded where he had worked, how much money he earned and — most important — where that money went.
Herminia and her young children would pick up the mail and hold these envelopes up to the sun, estimating their value by the silhouette of the bills inside. In 1985, the couple purchased land in Huajuapan, down the street from the central produce market. They built a small house where seven of their children grew up. Each time Pedro returned, he would build a wall to expand it.
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