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A review by abaugher
Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea
5.0
well-written and well-narrated. this is the 2013 Fox Valley Reads title. in an area where there are many Latinos, I'm glad to see we're finally putting a little ethnicity into our book choices!
a small town in Mexico has no men because they all went to the US to find work. Banditos come along and take over. Nallely and her friends decide to go on a quest to find seven ex-soldiers or former policemen from San Diego, like the Magnificent Seven. Nallely also wants to find her father, who went to Kankakee years ago, and never returned.
Before they even leave Mexico, the group of friends finds trouble. Somehow they manage to make it through each situation, sometimes a little battered and weary. America is amazing to them in its beauty, extravagance, and cleanliness. But, Mexico is beautiful to these people, and not everyone wants to leave it.
the perspective is one that would be familiar to many latinos, and refreshingly new for the rest of us.
a small town in Mexico has no men because they all went to the US to find work. Banditos come along and take over. Nallely and her friends decide to go on a quest to find seven ex-soldiers or former policemen from San Diego, like the Magnificent Seven. Nallely also wants to find her father, who went to Kankakee years ago, and never returned.
Before they even leave Mexico, the group of friends finds trouble. Somehow they manage to make it through each situation, sometimes a little battered and weary. America is amazing to them in its beauty, extravagance, and cleanliness. But, Mexico is beautiful to these people, and not everyone wants to leave it.
the perspective is one that would be familiar to many latinos, and refreshingly new for the rest of us.