{"product_id":"mother-tongue-9780345416568","title":"Mother Tongue","description":"\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Alice Walker \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMary 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 Jos  Luis enters her life. A refugee from El Salvador and its bloody civil war, Jos  has been smuggled to the United States as part of the sanctuary movement. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMary cannot help but fall in love with the movement and the man. And little by little, she begins to reveal to Jos  Luis the part of herself she has never known. . . . \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Barbara Kingsolver \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Demetria Mart nez 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Luis J. Rodr guez, Author of Always Running\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDemetria Martinez\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the widely translated novel \u003ci\u003eMother Tongue\u003c\/i\u003e, which won a Western States Book Award for Fiction. Martinez also wrote \u003ci\u003eThe Block Captain's Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e, 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, \u003ci\u003eThese People Want to Work: Immigration Reform\u003c\/i\u003e. Her collection of autobiographical essays, \u003ci\u003eConfessions of a Berlitz-Tape Chicana\u003c\/i\u003e, includes columns that originally appeared in \u003ci\u003ethe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNational Catholic Reporter\u003c\/i\u003e. In addition to writing, she is also an activist, creativity coach, and journalist based in New Mexico.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Random House Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50903514775826,"sku":"9780345416568","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f3471b95-3a1d-4d82-bb08-d074dd78223c.jpg?v=1738496664","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/mother-tongue-9780345416568","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}