- 1996 edition, 203 pages
- Published by Anchor
- Paperback
- Very good condition, reading copy stamped on page edges - top and bottom, name Louise written on free front end paper
A haunting, lyrical love story from an acclaimed American poet. A provocative tale of two exiles - one political, one emotional - and the many forms our prisons take.
Mary is nineteen, living alone in Albuquerque and, in the wake of her mother's death, longing for something meaningful to take her over. Vulnerable to love and game for anything, she knows she has discovered the other part of herself when Jose Luis enters her life. A refugee from the civil war in El Salvador, Jose Luis has come to the United States to expose the plight of thousands being harassed, tortured, and disappeared.
Mary cannot help but fall in love with the movement and the man who represents it for her. And little by little, she begins to reveal to Jose Luis the hope that always lives in love. Though violent times conspire against Mary's dreams, eventually she lays claim to a part of herself she never knew.
Told with the passion of a poet, with the unsparing honesty of a woman looking back on the most important decision of her life, the events in Mother Tongue unfold with the urgency, the inevitability of destiny.
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