Mariposa's Song

by Peter LaSalle

Book Overview

Pretty, twenty-year-old Mariposa has entered the U.S. from Honduras by way of Nuevo Laredo, without documentation. She now serves drinks and woos customers as a B-girl--sort of a dime-a-dance arrangement--in a shabby nightclub on the east side of Austin, Texas. Rough work, it's at least giving her a start in America. Between the norte o and cumbia songs the DJ plays, a smooth-talking Anglo out-of-towner who calls himself Bill shows up at the club...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896727815
• ISBN13: 9780896727816
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
• Length: 160 Pages