Highwire Moon Author:Susan Straight 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 Elvi... more »a, 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.« less
Really enjoyed reading this book and learned a lot about the Mexican immigrants flowing into the U.S. About Serafina, an illegal immigrant worker living in CA when the police catch and send her back to Mexico, without her 3 yr old daughter. She is in Mexico for 12 years before she risks another trip across the border to find he daughter. Brutally honest!