TC Reads has picked Barefoot Heart by Elva Trevino Hart for the Community Reads 2006 program. This is Trevino Hart's autobiography of everyday life, going from poverty to a successful professional. Elva is raised in South Texas and at age three follows the crops with her family as migrant workers in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Her father is a hardworker and expects his wife and children to be the same. Child labor laws were not enforced in the 50's. Elva, the youngest, overcomes loneliness and neglect, graduates from high school and, is the first in her family to go to college. The story is about her childhood, relationships with her siblings, and her need to please her father. It is about trying to understand her childhood, going away from her culture, and finding her way back home.

The author will be in the area to discuss this impressive, heartwarming selection. http://www.tcreads.org/