Luis Alberto Urrea, Author . Cinco Puntos $12.95 (146p) ISBN 978-0-938317-63-0
Urrea, best known for his hard-hitting nonfiction (Across the WireNobody's Son), proves once again to be an eloquent and elegiac spokesman for the down-and-out and the disaffected in this collection of six stories whose settings range from...
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Luis Alberto Urrea, Author . Little, Brown $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-316-74671-7
In May 2001, 26 Mexican men scrambled across the border and into an area of the Arizona desert known as the Devil's Highway. Only 12 made it safely across. American Book Award–winning writer and poet Urrea (Across the Wire
; Six Kinds of...
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Luis Alberto Urrea, Author . Little, Brown $24.95 (512p) ISBN 978-0-316-74546-8
"Her powers were growing now, like her body. No one knew where the strange things came from. Some said they sprang up in her after the desert sojourn with Huila. Some said they came from somewhere else, some deep inner landscape no one could...
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Luis Alberto Urrea, Author . Little, Brown $24.99 (342p) ISBN 978-0-316-02527-0
Nayeli, the Taqueria worker of Urrea's fine new novel (after The Hummingbird's Daughter
), is a young woman in the poor but tight-knit coastal Mexican town of Tres Camarones who spends her days serving tacos and helping her feisty aunt...
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Luis Alberto Urrea, Author Anchor Books $14 (208p) ISBN 978-0-385-48419-0
Urrea has an almost evangelical zeal to communicate the sad lot of Mexico's ""untouchable class,"" a border population abandoned by their country, at times by their own kin. This collection of repportage, like his Across the Wire, originates in...
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Luis Alberto Urrea, Author University of Arizona Press $24.95 (188p) ISBN 978-0-8165-1865-4
Urrea's elegant, painful memoir completes the poet/novelist's Border Trilogy, following Across the Wire and By the Lake of Sleeping Children. The son of an Anglo-American mother and a Mexican father, Urrea muses on the frustrations and logical...
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Luis Alberto Urrea, Author HarperCollins Publishers $20 (258p) ISBN 978-0-06-017089-9
Urrea wrests strange, beautiful poetry out of a mean, lean desert terrain--Arizona, mid-1950s--in this impressive first novel, a blend of deadpan humor, picaresque adventure and search for self. Home for Mike McGurk is a gas station run by his...
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Luis Alberto Urrea. Little, Brown, $25.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-316-15486-4
The historical Teresita Urrea, the “Saint of Cabora,” flees Mexico with her father after the Tomóchic rebellion of 1891, in Urrea’s sequel to the bestselling The Hummingbird’s Daughter. Pursued by assassins, the Urreas seek sanctuary in rural...
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Luis Alberto Urrea. Little, Brown, $25 (272p) ISBN 978-0-316-33437-2
Urrea’s (The Hummingbird’s Daughter) collection of darkly funny stories explores racial politics and amorphous cultural lines, set primarily in the Southwest. In the title story, a small town is in the throes of a drought so prolonged that a water...
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Luis Alberto Urrea and Christopher Cardinale, Cinco Punto (www.cincopuntos.com), $17.95 paper (64p) ISBN 978-1-933693-23-1
This lovely comics adaptation of a short story by major Latino writer Urrea may have found the ideal way to present magical realism graphically. As a boy growing up in the little town of Rosario, the narrator observes things in the natural world...
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Luis Alberto Urrea, Author, John Lueders-Booth, Photographer Anchor Books $14.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-385-42530-8
Urrea, a Mexican-born American, worked from 1978 to 1982 for a Protestant aid group in Tijuana, and he wrote these fragmentary, evocative tales of heartbreak and hope for the San Diego Reader after he returned to the region in 1990. ``Poverty is...
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Luis Alberto Urrea. Little, Brown, $27 (336p) ISBN 978-0-316-15488-8
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
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Luis Alberto Urrea. Little, Brown, $29 (336p) ISBN 978-0-316-26585-0
Urrea (The House of Broken Angels) transports readers to the Western Front of WWII in his stunning latest. Irene Woodward, a tough New Yorker, covers up the bruises received from her abusive fiancé with concealer and sweaters, throws her engagement...
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