Devil's Highway - Luis Alberto Urrea

A sprawling and epic family saga led by patriarch Big Angel that takes place over the weekend of the final birthday party he is throwing for himself at home in San Diego,

Urrea came to San Diego when he was three, the son of a Mexican father and an Anglo mother. This is a memoir of a childhood of differing cultures and languages.

A compelling look at what life is like for those refugees living on the Mexican side of the border--a world that is only some twenty miles from San Diego.

Delves into the post-NAFTA and Proposition 187 border purgatory of garbage pickers and dump dwellers

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Young woman's sudden sainthood in late 19th-century Mexico.

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.

After the bloody Tomochic rebellion, Teresita Urrea, beloved healer and "Saint of Cabora," flees with her father to Arizona.

Poetry

Collection of poetry on life at the border.

Graphic novel.

In the hot Arizona desert of the late 1950s, Mike McGurk comes of age in one big, riotous gush.

Fleeing a failed marriage and haunted by ghosts of his past, the author jumped into his car several years ago and headed west.

Born in Tijuana, the son of an Anglo woman and a Mexican father, Urrea says that "Home isn't just a place, it is also a language." In these six stories Urrea maps the spiritual geography of what he calls "home."

A series of poems, some written entirely or partly in Spanish, ranging in mood from comic to tragic and dealing with Urrea's life within the Hispanic-Anglo border culture.

Also in print JV6483 .H45 2010