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Highwire moon : a novel / Susan Straight

By:

Straight, Susan

Publication details: New York : Anchor Books , 2002 , c2001.Description: 306 p. ; 22 cmISBN:

9780618056149

DDC classification:

FIC STR

Summary: Straight has long been recognized as a master wordsmith, a clever and at times brilliant writer whose work explicates the lives of disenfranchised people. Highwire Moon continues this tradition. The story of an illegal Mexican immigrant named Serafina, the novel chronicles the 12-year aftermath of an INS raid that separates her from her American daughter. Told in the alternating voices of parent and child, the novel explores numerous worlds: migrant workers are juxtaposed with amphetamine addicts; homeless teens with well-tended foster children; industrial laborers with indigenous farm workers. Nothing is romanticized here, and the impact of social policies that keep individuals apart is made palpably real.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Fiction / Ficción	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	General	FIC STR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		007485

Straight has long been recognized as a master wordsmith, a clever and at times brilliant writer whose work explicates the lives of disenfranchised people. Highwire Moon continues this tradition. The story of an illegal Mexican immigrant named Serafina, the novel chronicles the 12-year aftermath of an INS raid that separates her from her American daughter. Told in the alternating voices of parent and child, the novel explores numerous worlds: migrant workers are juxtaposed with amphetamine addicts; homeless teens with well-tended foster children; industrial laborers with indigenous farm workers. Nothing is romanticized here, and the impact of social policies that keep individuals apart is made palpably real.

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