Highwire Moon

A Novel

by Susan Straight

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Pub Date Aug 06 2013 | Archive Date Jun 10 2016

Open Road Integrated Media | Open Road Media

General Fiction (Adult)

Description

With a new introduction by the author

Finalist 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. 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. 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. By the time Elvia is fifteen, she’s pregnant and surrounded by drugs. 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.

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A Note From the Publisher

Hispanic Heritage Month runs until October 15

Advance Praise

“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.” —The San Francisco Chronicle

“Heartrending.” —Publishers Weekly

“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

“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...

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