Highwire Moon: A Novel
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.35 (747 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1480419850 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 370 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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From Publishers Weekly There's much to admire in Straight's (I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots) heartrending, take-no-prisoners fourth novel, which returns to the fictional California town of Rio Seco to expose the horrific dangers facing migrant farm workers and explore how families are created and sustained. Straight portrays this world in imagery that can be quite poetic: "California was full of saints, all dead, the green freeway signs like their tombstones." But the language can also be unconvincing, as when Serafina prays for the Virgin Mary to "wrap an invisible blanket of bubbles around Elvia, each dimpl
By the time Elvia is fifteen, she’s pregnant and surrounded by drugs. . Serafina is a Mexican-Indian scraping by in Southern California; detained by immigration officials, she tragically lacks the English to tell them that Elvia, her three-year-old, is resting in a nearby car. She decides to find her mother across the border—at the very same time that Serafina goes in search of her. Highwire Moon is gritty and affecting, a family saga that couldn’t be of more relevance today. After her deportation, Serafina tries in vain to return to the States, while Elvia must survive several foster homes, later to be reclaimed by her father. With a new introduction by the authorFinalist for the National Book Award: The story of a young mother deported and separated from her child, and the pair’s efforts to locate each other years later Highwire Moon narrates the journeys of a young mother and daughter divided
The Real Inland Empire Burton Falk A finalist for the National Book Award, Straight's Highwire Moon is a compelling story of Serafina, an illegal migrant from the Mexican State of Oaxaca, who speaks only Mixtec, a regional dialect. When her daughter, Elvia, is only three years old, Serafina is involved in a car crash, after which--forced to leave Elvia behind--she is deported to Mexico. Twelve years later, with a pair of silver barrettes as her only solid link to Elvia, Serafina begins a hazardous journey across the border to find her lost child. Meanwhile. Culture and observation Book Not great, but it arrived within time frame. Highwire Act Thomas A. Liese An Indian woman from Mexico travels to the U.S. for work. She meets an American and has a child with him. She is deported and has to leave the child behind. Years later the woman returns and tries to find the child, who is also seeking her.The conflicts of culture and the struggles of people to make a living and overcome legal restrictions make the story dramatic. Interesting characters of varying backgounds abound. The harsh landscape of the Southwest, beautifully described, is the stage.The story is suspenseful and rema