Luís Alberto Urrea
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Nayeli, a taqueria worker in a poor coastal Mexican town, spends her time serving tacos and tries to help her aunt Irma get elected as mayor, but as drug gangsters take over the town, which is largely devoid of men, Nayeli travels north to find seven Mexican men to protect the community.
"Nayeli es una chica de diecinueve años que trabaja en una taquería de tres Camarones, un poblado mexicano. Ve en sueños a su padre, que emigró al norte cuando...
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"In Urrea's exuberant new novel of Mexican-American life, 70-year-old patriarch Big Angel de la Cruz is dying, and he wants to have one last birthday blowout. Unfortunately, his 100-year-old mother, America, dies the week of his party, so funeral and birthday are celebrated one day apart. The entire contentious, riotous de la Cruz clan descends on San Diego for the events--"High rollers and college students, prison veternaos and welfare mothers, happy...
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When sixteen-year-old Teresita, the illegitimate daughter of a late-nineteenth-century rancher, arises from death possessing the power to heal, she is declared a saint and finds her faith tested by the impending Mexican civil war.
Es 1889, y la guerra civil está elaborando cerveza en México. Una muchacha de 16 años, hija ilegítima pero querida de Teresita, del ranchero rico y de gran alcance pone a Tomas Urrea, estelas del sueño más extraño--un...