Esperanza's box of saints
By: María Amparo Escandón
Publisher: Scribner Paperback Fiction
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780684856148
Subjects: Death; Fiction; Picaresque literature; Apparitions; Mexican American women; Religious fiction; Mothers and daughters; Children; Mexican Americans
Description: A Mexican village woman has a vision that her 12-year-old daughter did not die, as a hospital claims, but was sold into prostitution by a doctor. The search for the girl takes her to Los Angeles. A first novel.
Notes: Also issued online.