SPOILER ALERT:The following are excerpts from my book club's fb timeline:Into the Beautiful North Discussion Question #1:"After travelling thousands of miles in search of her father, Nayeli is unable to confront him. In your opinion, does she make the right decision to heed his words at this time...
I thought this was a terrific "road novel" about a group of friends from Sinaloa who venture across the border into "Los Yunaites" through Tijuana, San Diego and on to Kansas. Some of the dialog in the book is delivered in slang and Spanglish. If you've read any of Urrea's non-fiction books you'l...
I adore this book. I like it very slightly less than "The Hummingbird's Daughter", which is to say this is one of my favorite books ever. I've read several of Urrea's books now and he has become one of my favorite authors. His fiction is unsurpassed and his non-fiction is absolutely devastating. ...
Lovely, lovely illustrations. Cardinale's an accomplished artist; he really makes the small town of Rosario come alive. You can practically feel the pulsing vitality of the culture and at the same time, feel the static humdrum of its citizens. Very well-done. Mr. Mendoza was quite a character, an...
Urrea pulls together two decades of personal research into the compelling story of a great aunt who became a sainted icon of the indigenous rebellion against the Porfiriato in late 19th century Mexico. The Hummingbird's Daughter paints a vivid, earthy, fearless picture of the insular rural world ...
The author of "Across the Wire" offers brilliant investigative reporting of what went wrong when, in May 2001, a group of 26 men attempted to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona. Only 12 men came back out.
But it was the opposite of that, and Joey’s dad was going to be spending the next thirty-five years there in a cage. He’d left all his shit behind, and Joey spent his free time in the garage, sorting it out. Free time—what a laugh. Most of his time was free. That was part of the problem, though J...