Urrea, Luis Alberto

In his final dying days, family patriarch Miguel "Big Angel" de La Cruz brings together his entire family for one final, amazing birthday party, and in the days leading up to the party his mother, nearly 100, dies as well--a double send-off. The family relate stories strange, touching, threatening, and bittersweet during the party, and Little Angel, Big Angel's half-brother--who is half-gringo--must come to terms with the fact that he will always be different from the rest of his family.

"In his final days, beloved and ailing patriarch Miguel Angel De La Cruz, known affectionately as Big Angel, has summoned his entire clan for one last legendary birthday party. But as the party approaches, his mother, nearly one hundred, dies herself, leading to a farewell doubleheader. Across one bittersweet weekend in their San Diego neighborhood, the revelers mingle among the palm trees and cacti, celebrating the lives of Big Angel and his mother, and recounting the many tales that have passed into family lore, the acts both ordinary and heroic that brought them to a fraught and sublime country and allowed them to flourish in the land they have come to call home."--Provided by publisher.

Nineteen-year-old Nayeli becomes very aware of the lack of men in Tres Camarones after watching the movie "The Magnificent Seven" at a local theater, and comes up with a plan to travel to the U.S.--Illinois specifically--and recruit a group of men to return with her to Mexico to protect and repopulate her remote village.

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.

A collection of short fiction stories by Tijuana author Luis Alberto Urrea.

Chronicles the true story of twenty-six men who attempted to cross the Mexican border into the southern Arizona desert known as the Devil's Highway, describing how the men struggled to survive the desert's harsh conditions and why only twelve survived the journey.

Study of what life is like for those refugees living on the Mexican side of the United States border.

Recounts the case of twenty-six men who attempted to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona through a region called Devil's Highway and were betrayed by a smuggler.

Nineteen-year-old Nayeli becomes very aware of the lack of men in Tres Camarones after watching the movie "The Magnificent Seven" at a local theater, and comes up with a plan to travel to the U.S.--Illinois specifically--and recruit a group of men to return with her to Mexico to protect and repopulate her remote village.

Working in a Mexican taco shop while dreaming of the father who left their family to work in the United States, nineteen-year-old Nayeli struggles with a realization that most of the men in her village have left to pursue work in the north.