Highwire Moon - Hardcover

Straight, Susan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0618056149 ISBN 13: 9780618056149

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2001

Synopsis

Two generations of women--Serafina, a Mexican-Indian girl who emigrates illegally to California, and her daughter, Elvia, separated from her mother when Serafina is deported--struggle to maintain their dignity amidst the frequently brutal world of migrant farm labor. By the author of Aquaboogie.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

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.

From the Back Cover:

“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

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

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

“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 this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0618056149
• ISBN 13: 9780618056149
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320