Girl in a Cage

By Sandra J. Schumm

GIRL IN A CAGE is a novel of hope for our time about journeys-replete with danger and confinement-to find personal freedom. After a novelist moves to Kansas in 2018, she is visited by a ghost who wants her to rescue a young Mexican immigrant girl he saw with a brutish man; all the while, her deported mother awaits any word of her daughter. Five main characters intersect and cross boundaries of different types: between nations, between life and the world of spirits, between truth and fiction, freedom and entrapment. Ana L pez de Dom nguez and her daughter Anita migrate from Mexico, the gambler Jack Collins becomes entangled in juvenile sex trafficking, and Antoine Benet is transformed into a ghost who enlists novelist Claire Schmidt's help to liberate Anita. GIRL IN. A CAGE, like AMERICAN DIRT, deals with immigration problems but, like THE HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS, offers a hopeful aspect of magical realism."GIRL IN A CAGE is a refreshing contemporary tale . . . there's much to love and enjoy throughout Schumm's story."--The BookLife Prize

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0578753162
• ISBN13: 9780578753164
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Papallona Books
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"