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Interviews | June 19, 2009

Dave: IMG Jim Lynch Makes Landscape Art... Out of Text



jimlynchIf Carl Hiaasen set one of his novels on a residential stretch of boundary line between British Columbia and Washington, or if Richard Russo's characters had relatives in the Pacific Northwest, the result might be something like Jim Lynch's Border Songs. Continue »
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Highwire Moon

by Susan Straight

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Awards

2001 National Book Award Finalist

Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

Critically acclaimed novelist Straight takes readers into the world of illegal Mexican migrants in this lovingly rendered story of a mother and daughter's search for each other. A Book Sense 76 Pick.

Review:

“Her gallery of misfits reminds one of Flannery O’Connor’s–but with a dash of sympathy and human goodness.”The Washington Post Book World

Review:

“An eye-opener of a novel, a road map to the real California. Straight turns headlines into poetry.” – The New York Times Book Review

Review:

“Packed with the kind of detail about people, places and emotions that transport the reader to a different world.” — San Francisco Chronicle

Review:

“One of America’s gutsiest writers … a polyglot with an astonishing ear for how people really talk in places we hardly remember they are living.” — The Baltimore Sun

About the Author

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.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780385722612
Author:
Straight, Susan
Publisher:
Anchor Books
Location:
New York
Subject:
General
Subject:
Foster home care
Subject:
Mothers and daughters
Subject:
Teenage girls
Subject:
Migrant labor
Subject:
California, Southern
Subject:
Domestic fiction
Subject:
Teenage pregnancy
Subject:
Deportation
Subject:
Women agricultural laborers.
Subject:
Bildungsromans
Edition Description:
1st Anchor Books ed.
Series Volume:
v. 3
Publication Date:
October 2002
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
320
Dimensions:
8.12x5.16x.73 in. .52 lbs.

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