Mother Tongue

Demetria Martinez

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Random House USA Inc
12 August 1997

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Sagas

""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 in love with the movement and the man. And little by little, she begins to reveal to Jose Luis the part of herself she has never known. . . .

""A book that becomes more timely every day, in our present political climate, and deserves the widest possible audience for its beautiful prose and humanitarian heart."" --Barbara Kingsolver

""Demetria Martinez has pulled out all the stops- here is truth to arouse any hardened heart; here is the 'insanity' of a woman in love calling forth a revolutionary lucidity. Read it. Get angry. And act."" --Luis J. Rodriguez, Author of Always Running

By: Demetria Martinez
Imprint: Random House USA Inc
Dimensions: Height: 190mm, Width: 126mm, Spine: 12mm
Weight: 162g
ISBN: 9780345416568
ISBN 10: 0345416562
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 12 August 1997
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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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