Into the Beautiful North

By Luis Alberto Urrea
(Back Bay Books, Paperback, 9780316025263, 368pp.)

Publication Date: June 2010

Other Editions of This Title: Google eBook, Hardcover, Compact Disc, Compact Disc, MP3 CD

Categories: Contemporary Women, General

Selected by Indie Booksellers for the June 2009 Indie Next List

“What do you do if the men have left your village? Nayeli and her friends leave their Mexican village on a quest to bring a few good men home. Luis Alberto Urrea's latest novel is beautifully written, and is full of humor and humanity.”

-- Deon Stonehouse, Sunriver Books, Sunriver, OR

Description

Nineteen-year-old Nayeli works at a taco shop in her Mexican village and dreams about her father, who journeyed to the US when she was young.

About the Author

Luis Alberto Urrea is the author of The Devil's Highway, The Hummingbirds Daughter, and Across the Wire.?Winner of a Lannan Literary Award,?and the Christopher Award, he is also the recipient of an American Book Award, a Western States Book Award, and a?Colorado Book Award. In 2001, Luis was inducted into the Latino?Literary Hall of Fame.

Praise For Into the Beautiful North…

"[Into the Beautiful North] is deliciously composed...[Urrea writes] in a sweet but serious style...You find it in the dialogue...You find it in the description of the countryside...the plot gathers as much strength as the prose..."
-Chicago Tribune

"Awash in a subtle kind of satire...A funny and poignant impossible journey...Into the Beautiful North is a refreshing antidote to all the negativity currently surrounding Mexico."?
-Dallas Morning News

"Magical"
-Vanity Fair

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