by Luis Alberto Urrea

Urrea returned to the background of his popular first book, "Across the Wire", then examined the impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement on the lives of poor people living on the border between the United States and Mexico. Urrea was born in Tijuana, a policeman in Mexico and a son of an American mother. Ironically, as he observed, "The boundary flows in the middle of me." Fluent bilingualism, he is very capable of writing down the town where he was born and the border areas it spans. He quickly acknowledges that many of Tijuana's places can not be characterized by the dirty features he wrote, but he again once again has the lowest low level, basureros, families living in cardboard boxes, and near the city I was fascinated by a temporary hut. A huge garbage dump survived by picking up garbage found every day. The appearance of everyday life is not unfamiliar - readers of Alex Kotlowitz and Jonathan Kozol will recognize the plight of the children who grew up in this situation. However, in the routine experience of the Americans, there is hardly anything compared to the painful affliction in the life depicted by urea. But as his book repeatedly shows, corrupt people have good dignity and independence. As the last chapter of this book is very clear, this is the community with the highest meaning, you can reach out to the members by appealing. This book is mainly written in response to the false hypothesis that it was spurred by California's 187 proposal and the North American Free Trade Agreement, the stimulation of today's anti-immigration waves in US politics. Passionate answer.

Luis Alberto Urrea occupies a lot of fertile land in his latest bitter novel about the relationship between Into the Beautiful North and Mexico and the United States. The readability of the book, its traditional story, and the heroine, which is not emotionally complicated, truly believes in the core powerful political message. Some of the problems Urrea has solved with humor and sorrow are poverty, violence outside the border, and illegal entry. Nayeli, 19, is working at a tacos yard in a remote (fictional) village called Tres Camarones in Sinaloan village. All men went north to go to the United States to find a job, and as many people as fathers did not go. When Nalco Bandido threatened to enter his hometown, Neyari invited three friends, Yorokisokitel, Veronica, her boss, octopus to travel north. Nayeli's plan is to find six females to find her father and form "gorgeous seven" (her hero in her favorite movie).

Luis Alberto Urea, a latin literary hall of fame in the 2005 Pulitzer novel finalist, is highly appreciated for his prolific work, exploring love, loss, and victory using a double cultural life experience I am a writer. Theme Urrea, born of Tijuana of Mexico, father of Mexico, mother of an American, covers all kinds of publications. As the author of 13 books, Urrea has won numerous awards in his poetry, novels and essays. Urrea and his family live in Naperville, Illinois. He is a professor of creative writing at the University of Illinois in Chicago.

Luis Alberto Urrea is the author of The Devil's Highway, The Hummingbirds Daughter, and Across the Wire. He was awarded the Lannan Literature Award and Christopher Award and received the American Book Award, the Western National Book Award and the Colorado Book Award. In 2001, Rui was elected Latin American Literature Hall of Fame.