Full name: Highwire Moon: A Novel

Author: Susan Straight Year: 2001 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780385722612 9781480419858 0385722613 1480419850

Serafina is an illegal migrant worker living in California when the police catch her and send her back to Mexico-without her three-year old daughter. Twelve years later, with a pair of silver barrettes her only tangible memory of Elvia, Serafina begins a harrowing journey back across the border to find her daughter. At the same time Elvia, now fifteen and pregnant, resolves to track her mother down. They travel a landscape populated by desperately poor migrants moving from harvest to harvest, truckers living hand-to-mouth in seedy motels, and lost children in foster homes. But the memory of love inspires hope, and out of these women's losses-and their determination-Straight has crafted a deeply moving tale of the meaning of home and family. Similar books: Under the Feet of Jesus by Helena Maria Viramontes Christ in Concrete by Pietro Di Donato The Fortunate Pilgrim by Mario Puzo A Feather on the Breath of God by Sigrid Nunez The Vision of Emma Blau by Ursula Hegi Memoirs of a Muse by Lara Vapnyar Typical American by Gish Jen Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee I Love You Like a Tomato by Marie Giordano Andrew's Brain by E. L. Doctorow Kitty Foyle by Christopher Morley This Side of Innocence by Taylor Caldwell Point of No Return by John P. Marquand Pilgrim's Inn by Elizabeth Goudge Daughter of Silence by Morris West