MotherTongue
By: Demetria Martinez.
Publisher: Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Tempe, Ariz
Language: eng
Number of pages: 121
Subjects: Mexican American women -- Fiction.; Salvadoran Americans -- Fiction.
Description: The unhappy romance of a Mexican-American woman smuggling refugees into New Mexico. She falls in love with one of them, gives birth to a child and he leaves her. The author is a journalist who in 1987 was indicted on charges related to smuggling refugees, but acquitted on grounds that she was doing research for a story.