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Highwire Moon
by Susan Straight

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About This Book

ISBN13: 9780385722612
ISBN10: 0385722613
Condition: Standard
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Awards

2001 National Book Award Finalist
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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.

Synopsis:

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 memory of Elvia, Serafina begins a harrowing journey back across the border to find her daughter. At the same time Elvia, now fifteen and pregnant, resolves to track her mother down. They travel a landscape populated by desperately poor migrants moving from harvest to harvest, truckers living hand-to-mouth in seedy motels, and lost children in foster homes. But the memory of love inspires hope, and out of these women's losses- and their determination- Straight has crafted a deeply moving tale of the meaning of home and family.
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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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