Highwire Moon
Susan Straight
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<b>A young Mexican mother struggles to reconnect with her child in America&#8212;a "heartrending, take-no-prisoners" novel (<i>Publishers Weekly</i>) and National Book Award finalist.</b><br> As an undocumented migrant worker, Serafina has scratched together a life for herself and her three-year-old daughter, Elvia, in the unglamorous shadows of Hollywood&#8212;until the morning she is apprehended by immigration officials and deported, separated from her terrified daughter who is crouched under the dashboard of their car.<br> By the time Elvia is fifteen, she has survived numerous foster homes and a father ill-suited to raising a tough-talking, pregnant young woman. Fighting for herself and her unborn child, she decides to search for her long-lost mother. Meanwhile, Serafina is making her way back across the Mexican border to find her little girl after all these years.<br> Hailed by the <i>New York Times Book Review</i> as "an eye-opener of a novel, a road map to the real...</br></br></br>