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[iv]+194 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5") bound in original publisher's stiff pictorial boards in original pictorial see through jacket. First edition. Mary is nineteen and living alone in Albuquerque. Adrift in the wake of her mother's death, she longs for something meaningful to take her over. Then José Luis enters her life. A refugee from El Salvador and its bloody civil war, José has been smuggled to the United States as part of the sanctuary movement. Mary cannot help but fall in love with the movement and the man. And little by little, she begins to reveal to José Luis the part of herself she has never known. Condition: jacket with closed tears at corners of pictorial else fine in a better than very good copy.
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- Title Mother Tongue
- Author Demetria Martinez
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Ballantine
- Pages 194
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher One World, Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.
- Date 1996
- ISBN 9780345406026 / 0345406028
- Weight 0.77 lbs (0.35 kg)
- Dimensions 7.82 x 5.32 x 0.88 in (19.86 x 13.51 x 2.24 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Love stories, Salvadoran Americans - Fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96096808
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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