Highwire Moon
by Straight, Susan
- Used
- Very Good
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0385722613
- ISBN 13
- 9780385722612
- Seller
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Tokyo, Japan
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About This Item
US: Anchor, 2002. Very Good. Serafina is an illegal migrant worker living in California when the police catch her and send her back to Mexico-without her three-year old daughter. Twelve years later, with a pair of silver barrettes her only tangible memor y of Elvia, Serafina begins a harrowing journey back across the border to f ind her daughter. At the same time Elvia, now fifteen and pregnant, resolve s to track her mother down. They travel a landscape populated by desperatel y poor migrants moving from harvest to harvest, truckers living hand-to-mou th in seedy motels, and lost children in foster homes. But the memory of lo ve inspires hope, and out of these women's losses-and their determination-S traight has crafted a deeply moving tale of the meaning of home and family.
Synopsis
Susan Straight's novels include I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots , Blacker Than a Thousand Midnights , and The Gettin Place . Her work has appeared in Harper's , Salon.com, Reader's Digest , and other leading periodicals. She was born in Riverside, California, and lives there with her three daughters.
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- Bookseller
- Infinity Books Japan (JP)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- RWARE0000025543
- Title
- Highwire Moon
- Author
- Straight, Susan
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0385722613
- ISBN 13
- 9780385722612
- Publisher
- Anchor
- Place of Publication
- US
- Date Published
- 2002
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