After Peaches by Michelle Mulder

Author:Michelle Mulder
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: JUV000000
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Published: 2009-10-01T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 8

Analía’s Letter

The girl in purple was the only worker who talked to us all day. Most of the others were older women and men, many of them dressed in long pieces of brightly colored fabric. We didn’t hear anyone speaking Spanish, but many spoke another language that Mamá thought might be from India.

At the end of the day, the teenagers weighed our buckets, gave Papá a pile of bills and coins, and said the farm opened again at seven o’clock the next morning.

“I’m tired,” I said as we crunched across the gravel parking lot.“How much did we make?”

Papá laughed and hugged my shoulders. “Don’t you worry about that, mi amor,” he said. “Hicimos suficiente. We made enough, and that’s all that matters.”

“This summer is about adventure,” Mamá agreed, “not money.” They seemed so eager to convince me that I wondered if we hadn’t made much at all. The next day, I would spend less time looking at the other people in the field and concentrate harder on picking. After all, it was because of me that we were here, and we had to think about finding a better apartment in September.

We piled into the car, which was still crammed with all our camping things, and even though it was only six in the evening, I fell asleep.

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