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When I walk through that door, I am : an immigrant mother's quest / Jimmy Santiago Baca.
Van Pelt Library PS3552.A254 W48 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baca, Jimmy Santiago, 1952- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Emigration and immigration.
- El Salvador--Emigration and immigration--Poetry.
- El Salvador.
- United States--Emigration and immigration--Poetry.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 74 pages ; 18 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Beacon Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- "Jimmy Santiago Baca sends us on a journey with Sophia, an El Salvadorian mother facing a mountain of obstacles, carrying with her the burden of all that has come before: her husband's murder, a wrenching separation from her young son at the border, then rape and abuse at the hands of ICE, yet persevering: "I keep walking/carrying you in my thoughts," she repeats, as she wills her boy to know she is on a quest to find him."--Back cover.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Baca, Jimmy Santiago, 1952- author. When I walk through that door, I am
- ISBN:
- 9780807059357
- 0807059358
- OCLC:
- 1055569812
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