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The Tijuana Book Of The Dead is overflowing with stance and heat, truthfulness and lyric musicality. No surprise, Urrea is masterful in telling the right parts of a story; his craftsmanship is formidable in its ease and transparency. I love this collection's astringent comedy and corresponding moments of outrage and despair, the ways it insists on ethical consciousness in an epoch of numbing and puerile ironies. So it's possible that Poetry makes nothing happen, directly, immediately, but it's clear Urrea understands the essential and clarifying effect poetry has on people's souls over time. Urrea understands the essential and clarifying effect poetry has on people's souls over time. -- Erin Belieu An award-winning poet, fiction writer and essayist, Urrea should be required reading for anyone living in the Southwest. Pure Urrea means being part Mexican, part Indian and part gringo. Reading his work means getting lost in stories that have both fable-like romance and visceral hopelessness, in voices that shift beautifully from sharp and quick-witted to meditative and soft. -- San Diego Union Tribune Jaunty, bawdy, gritty, sweet...a bottomless comic energy and a heart large enough to accept--even revel in--all of human folly. --Stewart O'Nan, author of Songs for the Missing

Praise for Luis Urrea An award-winning poet, fiction writer and essayist, Urrea should be required reading for anyone living in the Southwest. Pure Urrea means being part Mexican, part Indian and part gringo. Reading his work means getting lost in stories that have both fable-like romance and visceral hopelessness, in voices that shift beautifully from sharp and quick-witted to meditative and soft. --San Diego Union Tribune Jaunty, bawdy, gritty, sweet...a bottomless comic energy and a heart large enough to accept--even revel in--all of human folly. --Stewart O'Nan, author of Songs for the Missing Praise for The Devil's Highway Superb....Nothing less than a saga on the scale of the Exodus and an ordeal as heartbreaking as the Passion....The book comes vividly alive with a richness of language and a mastery of narrative detail that only the most gifted of writers are able to achieve. -- Los Angeles Times Book Review The book's rare power is that it is both epic in scope -- a trek through the wilderness in search of 'the promised land' -- and intensely personal. -- Boston Globe A reading of The Devil's Highway will undoubtedly brace your soul and remind you that all of us, rich or poor, brown, white, black or yellow, are traveling through these parts for only a little while. San Francisco Chronicle Praise for The Hummingbird's Daughter The Hummingbird's Daughter breathes with life, populated with multiple, complex and genuinely individual characters.... It is an immensely entertaining work that is intelligently and sympathetically told.... [A] classic, a tribute and love song to the colorful and vibrant heart of all things Mexican. -- The San Francisco Chronicle To the very end, The Hummingbird's Daughter is a book of surprises and savory treasures. -- The Washington Post A beautifully composed novel....[T]hat constantly stirs a reader's own sense of wonder. Chicago

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Luis Alberto Urrea, 2005 Pulitzer Prize finalist for nonfiction and member of the Latino Literature Hall of Fame, is a prolific and acclaimed writer who uses his dual-culture life experiences to explore greater themes of love, loss, and triumph. Born in Tijuana, Mexico to a Mexican father and an American mother, Urrea has published extensively in all the major genres. The critically acclaimed and best-selling author of 13 books, he has won numerous awards for his poetry, fiction and essays, and his work has been featured in The Best American Poetry series. Urrea lives with his family in Naperville, IL, where he teaches creative writing at the University of Illinois-Chicago.

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