Luis Alberto Urrea

Prizewinning and bestselling writer Luis Urrea has written his Mexican coming-to-America story, his masterpiece. Destined to sit alongside other classic immigrant novels, THE HOUSE OF BROKEN ANGELS is a sprawling and epic family saga helmed by patriarch Big Angel that takes place over the weekend of the final birthday party he is throwing for himself at home in San Diego, occasioned by his imminent death at the hands of that familiar killer cancer.But when Big Angel's mother Mama America passes as the party nears, he must plan her funeral as well, and so decides to throw two family affairs in one weekend: a farewell double-header. Among the attendants is his namesake Little Angel, who flies in from Seattle to pay his respects and say his goodbyes, and comes face to face with the people with whom he shared a parent but as the weekend proceeds to remind him, not a life. This is the story of Big Angel and Little Angel, of what it means to be a Mexican in America, to have lived two lives across one border - and about the ravaging power of death to shore up the bits of life you have forgotten, whether by choice or not. A finely wrought portrait of this deeply complex family, THE HOUSE OF BROKEN ANGELS is purely Urrean: teeming with brilliance and humor, authentic at every turn - this novel cements Urrea as a master truth-teller of the Mexican-American experience.

At turns heartbreaking, uplifting, fiercely romantic, and riotously funny,this novel from a Pulitzer Prize finalist tells the unforgettable story of a young woman coming of age and finding her place in a new world. Beginning where Luis Alberto Urreas bestselling The Hummingbirds Daughter left off, Queen of America finds young Teresita Urrea, beloved healer and "Saint of Cabora," with her father in 1892 Arizona. But, besieged by pilgrims in desperate need of her healing powers, and pursued by assassins, she has no choice but to flee the borderlands and embark on an extraordinary journey into the heart of turn-of-the-century America. Teresitas passage will take her to New York, San Francisco, and St. Louis, where she will encounter European royalty, Cuban poets, beauty queens, anxious immigrants and grand tycoons -- and, among them, a man who will force Teresita to finally ask herself the ultimate question: is a saint allowed to fall in love?

" La casa de los ángeles rotos " es una saga familiar épica, encabezada por el patriarca Angelote, que transcurre durante la última fiesta de cumpleaños que este celebra en su casa de San Diego con ocasion de su inminente muerte a manos de un cancer letal. Pero cuando la madre de Angelote, mama America, fallece en fechas cercanas a la fiesta, este debe organizar tambien su funeral y decide celebrar dos actos familiares en el mismo fin de semana: una doble despedida. Entre los asistentes esta su tocayo Angelin, que vuela desde Seattle para presentar sus respetos y despedirse, y que se encuentra con la gente con la que comparte un progenitor pero, como el fin de semana no para de recordarle, no su vida. Esta es la historia de Angelote y Angelin, de lo que implica ser mexicano en Estados Unidos, haber vivido dos vidas y cruzado una frontera, y sobre como la muerte hace emerger las partes de tu vida que habias olvidado, haya sido o no por eleccion propia. " La casa de los angeles rotos " , un retrato finamente cincelado de esta familia profundamente compleja, es Urrea en su mas pura esencia: brillante y rebosante de humor, autentica en cada giro, esta novela consolida a Urrea como el maestro narrador de la verdad sobre la experiencia mexicoamericana.

This hard-hitting, beautiful short story collection from one of Americas preeminent literary voices reflect[s] both sides of his Mexican-American heritage while stretching the readers understanding of human boundaries (Kirkus). Examining the borders between one nation and another, between one person and another, Urrea reveals his mastery of the short form. This collection includes the Edgar-award winning "Amapola" and his now-classic "Bid Farewell to Her Many Horses," which had the honor of being chosen for NPRs "Selected Shorts" not once but twice. Suffused with wanderlust, compassion, and no small amount of rock and roll, The Water Museum is a collection that confirms Luis Alberto Urrea as an American master.

This powerful novel from a bestselling and Pulitzer Prize winning author tells the story of a young womans journeyboth emotionally and physicallyas she travels north to America. Nineteen-year-old Nayeli works at a taco shop in her Mexican village and dreams about her father, who journeyed to the US to find work. Recently, it has dawned on her that he isnt the only man who has left town. In fact, there are almost no men in the village -- theyve all gone north. While watching The Magnificent Seven, Nayeli decides to go north herself and recruit seven men -- her own "Siete Magnv?ficos" -- to repopulate her hometown and protect it from the bandidos who plan on taking it over. Filled with unforgettable characters and prose as radiant as the Sinaloan sun, Into the Beautiful North is the story of an irresistible young womans quest to find herself on both sides of the fence.

Nineteen-year-old Nayeli works at a taco shop in her Mexican village and dreams about her father, who journeyed to the US to find work. Recently, it has dawned on her that he isnt the only man who has left town. In fact, there are almost no men in the village -- theyve all gone north. While watching The Magnificent Seven, Nayeli decides to go north herself and recruit seven men -- her own "Siete Magnv?ficos" -- to repopulate her hometown and protect it from the bandidos who plan on taking it over. Filled with unforgettable characters and prose as radiant as the Sinaloan sun, Into the Beautiful North is the story of an irresistible young womans quest to find herself on both sides of the fence.

This important book from a Pulitzer Prize finalist follows the brutal journey a group of men take to cross the Mexican border: "the single most compelling, lucid, and lyrical contemporary account of the absurdity of U.S. border policy" (The Atlantic). In May 2001, a group of men attempted to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona, through the deadliest region of the continent, the "Devils Highway." Three years later, Luis Alberto Urrea wrote about what happened to them. The result was a national bestseller, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a "book of the year" in multiple newspapers, and a work proclaimed as a modern American classic.

Inmensamente entretenida. David Hellman, San Francisco ChronicleElegida como uno de los mejores libros del año por el Chicaogo Tribune, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News, y Washington PostLos milagros y las pasiones abundan en esta novela fascinante que ha sido aclamada como obra maestra. Es la historia de una joven mexicana cuyas facultades para curar a los aflijidos le prestan aura de santa. Ella llega a realizar su destino sorprendente entre las llamas de una revolucion naciente... mientras que el pueblo se levanta, gritando su nombre.

Epic . . . Rambunctious . . . Highly entertainingNew York TimesAll we do, mija, is love. Love is the answer. Nothing stops it. Not borders. Not death.In his final days, beloved and ailing patriarch Miguel Angel de La Cruz, affectionately called Big Angel, has summoned his entire clan for one last legendary birthday party. But as the party approaches, his mother, nearly one hundred, dies, transforming the weekend into a farewell doubleheader. Among the guests is Big Angels half brother, known as Little Angel, who must reckon with the truth that although he shares a father with his siblings, he has not, as a half gringo, shared a life.Across two bittersweet days in their San Diego neighbourhood, the revellers mingle among the palm trees and cacti, celebrating the lives of Big Angel and his mother, and recounting the many inspiring tales that have passed into family lore, the acts both ordinary and heroic that brought these citizens to a fraught and sublime country and allowed them to flourish in the land they have come to call home.Teeming with brilliance and humor, authentic at every turn, The House of Broken Angels is Luis Alberto Urrea at his best, and cements his reputation as a storyteller of the first rank.

Extraordinary . . . deeply felt and beautifully toldObserverIt is 1889. Civil war is brewing in Mexico, and sixteen-year-old Teresita has just woken from the strangest dream - a dream that she has died. Only it was not a dream. This passionate and rebellious young woman has arisen from death with a power to heal - but it will take all her faith to endure the trials that await her and her family now that she has become the Saint of Cabora.The Hummingbirds Daughter is the story of a girl and a country grappling with their destiny. Two decades in the writing, the result is an epic, dazzling novel of love and loss, joy and sacrifice.

This New York Times bestselling novel tells an exhilarating World War II epic that chronicles an extraordinary young womans heroic frontline service in the Red Cross. Urreas touch is sure, his exuberance carries you through ... He is a generous writer, not just in his approach to his craft but in the broader sense of what he feels necessary to capture about life itself. Financial Times In 1943, Irene Woodward abandons an abusive fiance in New York to enlist with the Red Cross and head to Europe. She makes fast friends in training with Dorothy Dunford, a towering Midwesterner with a ferocious wit. Together they are part of an elite group of women, nicknamed Donut Dollies, who command military vehicles called Clubmobiles at the front line, providing camaraderie and a taste of home that may be the only solace before troops head into battle. After D-Day, these two intrepid friends join the Allied soldiers streaming into France. Their time in Europe will see them embroiled in danger, from the Battle of the Bulge to the liberation of Buchenwald. Through her friendship with Dorothy, and a love affair with a courageous American fighter pilot named Hans, Irene learns to trust again. Her most fervent hope, which becomes more precarious by the day, is for all three of them to survive the war intact. Taking as inspiration his mothers own Red Cross service, Luis Alberto Urrea has delivered an overlooked story of womens heroism in World War II. With its affecting and uplifting portrait of friendship and valor in harrowing circumstances, Good Night, Irene powerfully demonstrates yet again that Urreas gifts as a storyteller are prodigious (NPR).

" La casa de los ángeles rotos " es una saga familiar épica, encabezada por el patriarca Angelote, que transcurre durante la última fiesta de cumpleaños que este celebra en su casa de San Diego con ocasion de su inminente muerte a manos de un cancer letal. Pero cuando la madre de Angelote, mama America, fallece en fechas cercanas a la fiesta, este debe organizar tambien su funeral y decide celebrar dos actos familiares en el mismo fin de semana: una doble despedida. Entre los asistentes esta su tocayo Angelin, que vuela desde Seattle para presentar sus respetos y despedirse, y que se encuentra con la gente con la que comparte un progenitor pero, como el fin de semana no para de recordarle, no su vida. Esta es la historia de Angelote y Angelin, de lo que implica ser mexicano en Estados Unidos, haber vivido dos vidas y cruzado una frontera, y sobre como la muerte hace emerger las partes de tu vida que habias olvidado, haya sido o no por eleccion propia. " La casa de los angeles rotos " , un retrato finamente cincelado de esta familia profundamente compleja, es Urrea en su mas pura esencia: brillante y rebosante de humor, autentica en cada giro, esta novela consolida a Urrea como el maestro narrador de la verdad sobre la experiencia mexicoamericana.

Teresita no es una chica normal. Hija de una india analfabeta y pobre, apenas conoce nada de su pasado ni de su futuro. No tiene ni idea de que su padre es don Tomás Urrea, el rico y salvaje propietario de un enorme rancho en el estado mexicano de Sinaloa. No tiene ni idea de que Hulia, la anciana curandera que la toma bajo su proteccion, conoce los secretos de su destino. Y no tiene ni idea de que muy pronto Mexico estallara en una revolucion y gritara su nombre...

¿Qué pasaría si una amistad forjada en la guerra marcase una vida para siempre?En 1943, Irene Woodward huye de Nueva York y de su mezquino prometido para alistarse en la Cruz Roja y poner rumbo a Europa. Durante su formacion, entabla amistad con Dorothy Dunford, una mujer del Medio Oeste poseedora de un apabullante ingenio. Ambas forman parte de las Donut Dollies, un selecto grupo de mujeres que viajan en vehiculos militares conocidos como Clubmobiles con el proposito de ofrecer camaraderia, diversion y sabor hogareño a los combatientes en el frente, y es de este modo como ambas amigas se unen a los soldados aliados que se dirigen a Francia. Durante su estancia en Europa se veran envueltas en toda suerte de peligros, desde la batalla de las Ardenas hasta la liberacion de Buchenwald. Gracias a Dorothy y a Hans, un aguerrido piloto de caza estadounidense, Irene aprende a confiar de nuevo en el ser humano. Pero la esperanza de que los tres sobrevivan a la guerra se va volviendo mas debil conforme pasan los dias. Tomando como inspiracion la experiencia de su propia madre en la Cruz Roja, Luis Alberto Urrea rescata del olvido una historia de heroismo femenino durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Con su emotivo y conmovedor retrato de la amistad y del valor en circunstancias angustiosas, Buenas noches, Irene vuelve a poner de manifiesto "las prodigiosas dotes narrativas de Urrea" (NPR).

¿Qué pasaría si una amistad forjada en la guerra marcase una vida para siempre?En 1943, Irene Woodward huye de Nueva York y de su mezquino prometido para alistarse en la Cruz Roja y poner rumbo a Europa. Durante su formacion, entabla amistad con Dorothy Dunford, una mujer del Medio Oeste poseedora de un apabullante ingenio. Ambas forman parte de las Donut Dollies, un selecto grupo de mujeres que viajan en vehiculos militares conocidos como Clubmobiles con el proposito de ofrecer camaraderia, diversion y sabor hogareño a los combatientes en el frente, y es de este modo como ambas amigas se unen a los soldados aliados que se dirigen a Francia. Durante su estancia en Europa se veran envueltas en toda suerte de peligros, desde la batalla de las Ardenas hasta la liberacion de Buchenwald. Gracias a Dorothy y a Hans, un aguerrido piloto de caza estadounidense, Irene aprende a confiar de nuevo en el ser humano. Pero la esperanza de que los tres sobrevivan a la guerra se va volviendo mas debil conforme pasan los dias. Tomando como inspiracion la experiencia de su propia madre en la Cruz Roja, Luis Alberto Urrea rescata del olvido una historia de heroismo femenino durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Con su emotivo y conmovedor retrato de la amistad y del valor en circunstancias angustiosas, Buenas noches, Irene vuelve a poner de manifiesto "las prodigiosas dotes narrativas de Urrea"(NPR).