The Worm in my Tomato

A Novel inspired by a true experience of the Repatriation of a Mexican American Family by the United States government Immigration Policies during the Great Depression in 1932. The mother and children were all United States citizens. The father was a Mexican national who had worked in the United States for thirty-eight years. Read how the family stayed together and overcame many obstacles and ordeals caused by poverty and Mexican Government policies before they returned to their hometown of Miami, Arizona in 1938. Thousands of Mexican Repatriates of the 1930s no doubt can relate to the suffering and hardship endured by the Vega family in the story. Indeed, the story shows how the Repatriation prompted personal, cultural, psychological and theological decisions. Is the experience of the Repatriation to be repeated again? After many years, the author, who lived through the ordeal, tells his story.