MIGRANT

Anna is the child of Mennonites from Mexico, who have come north to harvest fruit and vegetables. Sometimes she feels like a bird, f lying north in the spring and south in the fall, sometimes like a jackrabbit in an abandoned burrow, since her family occupies an em pty farmhouse near the fields, sometimes like a kitten, as she shares a bed with her sisters . . . But above all Anna wonders what i t would be like to be a tree rooted deeply in the earth, watching the seasons come and go, instead of being like a feather in the wi nd.