Critically acclaimed novelist Straight takes readers into the world of illegal Mexican migrants in this lovingly rendered story of a mother and daughter's search for each other. A Book Sense 76 Pick.
An army nurse was coming by three times a day to change the dressing and administer a shot of antibiotics. But one day soon her arm would heal. Her heart? Well, that was another matter. She swung her feet over the edge of the bed and ...
When Sharon McCone learns she had been adopted, the San Francisco private detective begins a search for her birth parents that takes her deep into Native American culture on the Flathead Reservation in Montana, which reignites old hatreds ...
Sent to live with her real family after her sister's gang-related murder, Rain leaves the ghettos of Washington, D.C. for a world she does not understand.
All her life, Grace has wondered about the mother who had given her up for adoption when she was born.