Mother Tongue Author:Demetria Martinez "Demetria Martinex writes like the poet she is, but also with a novelist's ear and with the authority of her close knowledge of the life of Central American refugees." She tells the story of a young and rather naive Mexican American woman who falls in love with a Salvadoran refugee who has come to the United States to escape the political situ... more »ation in his country. This woman learns to exchange her fragility for strength. Lyrical and highly readable at the same time. Martinez lives in Tucson, where she works as a columnist for the National Catholic Reporter. This book won the 1994 Western States Book Award for Fiction.« less