{"product_id":"9780807006627","title":"Mosquito","description":"By: Gayl Jones   | Series: Celebrating Black Women Writers \u003chr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the highly acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eCorregidora\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Healing\u003c\/i\u003e—a rare and unforgettable journey set along the US–Mexico border about identity, immigration, and “the new underground railroad.”\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Jones’s great achievement is to reckon with both history and interiority, and to collapse the boundary between them.”—Anna Wiener, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst discovered and edited by Toni Morrison, Gayl Jones has been described as one of the great literary writers of the 20th century. In \u003ci\u003eMosquito\u003c\/i\u003e, she examines the US–Mexico border crisis through the eyes of Sojourner Nadine Jane Johnson, an African American truck driver known as Mosquito. Her journey beings after discovering a stowaway who nearly gives birth in the back of her truck, sparking her accidental and yet growing involvement in “the new underground railroad,” a sanctuary movement for Mexican immigrants.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs Mosquito’s understanding of the immigrants’s need to forge new lives and identities deepens, so too does Mosquito’s romance with Ray, a gentle revolutionary, philosopher, and, perhaps, a priest. Along the road, Mosquito introduces us to Delgadina, a Chicana bartender who fries cactus, writes haunting stories, and studies to become a detective; Monkey Bread, a childhood pal who is, improbably, assistant to a blonde star in Hollywood; Maria, the stowaway who names her baby Journal, a misspelled tribute to her unwitting benefactor Sojourner; and many more.","brand":"Beacon Press","offers":[{"title":"US - Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":46376051114211,"sku":"DTRPRUS-9780807006627","price":128.0,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1778\/4925\/files\/9780807006627.jpg?v=1747607658","url":"https:\/\/buybookbook.com\/zh-mo\/products\/9780807006627","provider":"買書書 BuyBookBook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}