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- catalog abstract ""The Fifth Sun is an inspiring story of an immigrant who struggles valiantly for a better life for herself and her family. The young Mexican woman, Mercedes, leaves her village to work as a housemaid in New Orleans. This fast-paced novel takes her through her adventures in New Orleans, her marriage, her struggle to raise her children, her -deportation, and her attempt to re-cross the river and be reunited with her children. "Mary Helen Lagasse has woven a tapestry of many colors in her novel about Mercedes, the Mexican girl whose life is like a blood-red thread that weaves its way through the intricate design representing an early 20th century Mexican-American experience. Her story presents us with a panoramic view of the life of a Mexican woman who is both typical in her acceptance of a life of hardship, betrayal and poverty, yet also truly extraordinary in her passionate defense of her vision of a different future for her children in the United States. From her determination to not merely exist, allowing herself to be carried by the currents of El Destino, but to live fully, and to create a home for her family out of the meager resources in her environment, Mercedes is a trooper, a proto-feminist. Her journey is the hero's journey-the path to enlightenment, and with each hurdle she encounters increasing her self-knowledge and strength of character. . . ."--Publisher description.".
- catalog contributor b13239189.
- catalog coverage "Mexico Fiction.".
- catalog coverage "New Orleans (La.) Fiction.".
- catalog created "2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2004.".
- catalog description ""The Fifth Sun is an inspiring story of an immigrant who struggles valiantly for a better life for herself and her family. The young Mexican woman, Mercedes, leaves her village to work as a housemaid in New Orleans. This fast-paced novel takes her through her adventures in New Orleans, her marriage, her struggle to raise her children, her -deportation, and her attempt to re-cross the river and be reunited with her children. "Mary Helen Lagasse has woven a tapestry of many colors in her novel about Mercedes, the Mexican girl whose life is like a blood-red thread that weaves its way through the intricate design representing an early 20th century Mexican-American experience. Her story presents us with a panoramic view of the life of a Mexican woman who is both typical in her acceptance of a life of hardship, betrayal and poverty, yet also truly extraordinary in her passionate defense of her vision of a different future for her children in the United States. From her determination to not merely exist, allowing herself to be carried by the currents of El Destino, but to live fully, and to create a home for her family out of the meager resources in her environment, Mercedes is a trooper, a proto-feminist. Her journey is the hero's journey-the path to enlightenment, and with each hurdle she encounters increasing her self-knowledge and strength of character. . . ."--Publisher description.".
- catalog extent "337 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Fifth sun.".
- catalog identifier "1931896054 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Fifth sun.".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Willimantic, CT : Curbstone Press,".
- catalog relation "Fifth sun.".
- catalog spatial "Mexico Fiction.".
- catalog spatial "New Orleans (La.) Fiction.".
- catalog subject "813/.6 22".
- catalog subject "Deportation Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Domestic fiction.".
- catalog subject "Illegal aliens Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Married women Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Mother and child Fiction.".
- catalog subject "PS3612.A38 F54 2004".
- catalog subject "Women household employees Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Women immigrants Fiction.".
- catalog title "The fifth sun : a novel / by Mary Helen Lagasse.".
- catalog type "Domestic fiction. lcgft".
- catalog type "Domestic fiction. lcsh".
- catalog type "Domestic fiction.".
- catalog type "Psychological fiction. lcgft".
- catalog type "Psychological fiction. lcsh".
- catalog type "Psychological fiction.".
- catalog type "text".