num_pages: 262
description: Marie-Noelle, an illegitimate child searches for the mother who had abandoned her and the identity of her father in this novel of redemption set between Mexico, France, and the United States. Reprint.
language: English
title: Desirada
titlecomplete: Desirada
genres: Literary Fiction, Novels, France, Fiction, Cultural, Contemporary
ratings_count: 555
awards: name: Prix Carbet of the Caribbean and Tout-Monde
publisher: Soho Press