Description
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.
Author: Luis Alberto Urrea
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Published: 06/16/2010
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 8.22h x 6.18w x 0.98d
ISBN: 9780316025263
Language: English
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