Highwire Moon: A Novel - 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.

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Review:

“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 “Heartrending.”—Publishers Weekly 

About the Author:

Susan Straight is the author of three novels, including I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots, and a collection of stories, Aquaboogie. Her work has won numerous awards, among them a Guggenheim fellowship and a Lannan Foundation grant. She teaches creative writing at the University of California, Riverside, and is the mother of three young daughters.

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0618056149
• ISBN 13: 9780618056149
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 306