Mother Tongue
$35.99
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
12 August 1997
Summary
“It is a great beauty of a book, and I am so proud of you for standing with and for the disappeared. A sister, a lover, a witness.”–Alice Walker
Mary is nineteen and living alone in Albuquerque. Adrift in the wake of her mother’s death, she longs for something meaningful to take her over. Then Jose Luis enters her life. A refugee from El Salvador and its bloody civil war, Jose has been smuggled to the United States as part of the sanctuary movement.
Mary cannot help but fall i…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780345416568 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0345416562 |
| Author: | Demetria Martinez |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Random House USA Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 12 August 1997 |
| Weight: | 162g |
| Dimensions: | 190mm x 126mm x 12mm |
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About The Author
Demetria Martinez
Demetria Martinez is the author of the widely translated novel Mother Tongue, which won a Western States Book Award for Fiction. Martinez also wrote The Block Captain’s Daughter, which won an American Book Award and the International Latino Book Award for best Latino Focused Fiction. She co-authored an ebook with former Oklahoma Senator Fred Harris, These People Want to Work- Immigration Reform. Her collection of autobiographical essays, Confessions of a Berlitz-Tape Chicana, includes columns that originally appeared in the National Catholic Reporter. In addition to writing, she is also an activist, creativity coach, and journalist based in New Mexico.
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