Historical & Cultural Roots
Eyes on Salinas
Eyes on Salinas – A historical novel set in California’s agricultural heartland, exploring labor, love, and identity against the backdrop of Filipino farmworker struggles and their fight for equality in America. Told through the eyes of an elderly Filipino man in a present-day interview, the story looks back on how one labor leader and his forbidden love changed the course of his life and drew him into the Filipino labor movement for years to come.
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M.B. Meloy
M.B. Meloy is a California author, multi-genre writer, and former teacher whose novels and children’s books blend history, spiritual realism, and near-future imagination. Trained under a Buddhist monk in her late teens, she folds contemplative practice and questions of universal energy into her stories. Her works include Eyes on Salinas, The Crossing: The Chronicles of Another World, The Incredible Tales of Loretto the Great, Gabner: The Frog King, Nora: The Teenage NORAD, Pale Codes, and 8 Children.