Rumbo Al Hermoso Norte: Una Novela, (Paperback)

from mckait

I read and loved Urrea's book The Hummingbirds Daughter. Because of this I did not hesitate to buy Beautiful North, without a second thought. I was then a little afraid to read it, thinking it might be disappointing to me. I shouldn't have worried. Nayeli is a young girl from a Mexican village. O...

from lriley

Luis Alberto Urrea's 'Into the beautiful North' begins in a small fictional seaside town--Tres Camarones in Sinaloa, Mexico . Prospects have been pretty dead there for some time and most of the male residents have left for greener pastures--many of them 'illegals' crossing the United States borde...

from Donna828

Nayeli is young, beautiful, and fascinated with the Beautiful North; i.e., the U.S. Her father left to find work in Illinois. Most of the village men also went north looking for a better life for their families. Nayeli fears for the safety of her small Mexican village and, along with her home-gir...

from whitreidtan

This was my final choice for my summer book club. I chose it because it seemed so unusual and different and I suspected that it would inspire some fabulous conversation. That might have been the case but I had to miss the meeting because of a little thing called my daughter's dance tryouts. Would...

from Donna828

Nayeli is young, beautiful, and fascinated with the Beautiful North; i.e., the U.S. Her father left to find work in Illinois. Most of the village men also went north looking for a better life for their families. Nayeli fears for the safety of her small Mexican village and, along with her home-gir...