| When I Walk Through That Door, I Am: An Immigrant Mother's Quest Contributor(s): Baca, Jimmy Santiago (Author) |
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ISBN: 0807059358 ISBN-13: 9780807059357 Publisher: Beacon Press OUR PRICE: $11.66 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - Hispanic American - Language Arts & Disciplines | Writing - General - Political Science | Public Policy - Immigration |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 2018043630 |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 4.9" W x 6.9" (0.20 lbs) 88 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Hispanic - Ethnic Orientation - Latino |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Poet-activist Jimmy Baca immerses the reader in an epic narrative poem, imagining the experience of motherhood in the context of immigration, family separation, and ICE raids on the Southern border. 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. |