Pakistan, March 28 -- Elva Trevino Hart's debut work Barefoot Heart, a memoir, documents her family's experience living and working between Pearsall, Texas, and the fields of Minnesota and Wisconsin.

Elva Trevino Hart claims that the memoir has no political motives and is simply an account of her life. Because Elva ultimately went on to earn a high level of education-rare for a migrant farm worker-the memoir is considered to articulate an underrepresented voice. Havana Thursday author Virgil Suarez best expresses this sentiment when she says, "This is a beautiful book, one many of us teaching Latino/a memoir and autobiography have long been waiting for."

At the beginning of her story, Elva explains that she never had a bed as a child, i...