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Highwire Moon
Highwire Moon
Author: Susan Straight
In this powerful, great-hearted story, Susan Straight takes us back to the multiracial area of southern California that is, in Faulkner"s phrase, her "postage stamp of soil." As in her highly acclaimed earlier novels, she has created a world of richly imagined characters struggling to retain their dignity and humanity in an often brutal environm...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780618056149
ISBN-10: 0618056149
Publication Date: 8/8/2001
Pages: 320
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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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"An eye-opener of a novel, a road map to the real California. Straight turns headlines into poetry." New York Times Book Review
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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!


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