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Bezig met laden... Into the Beautiful Northdoor Luis Alberto Urrea
  
Bezig met laden...
 Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek.  rmarcin | Nov 14, 2023 |    ) librariandiva2 | Jan 27, 2023 | The story is slow more often than it moves, but when it moves, hang on. The back cover calls it "joyful," which is a bit of a stretch, but it has its gleeful moments. I'm half-seriously planning an analysis of Atomiko as Moses (the staff, you know). I would like to have understood a little more about the conditions that made the journey necessary. That element seemed glossed over, unserious, tossed in for the sake of moving the plot, rather than an actual problem facing Mexican communities. ( ) IVLeafClover | Jun 21, 2022 |  ) JodeMillman | Dec 16, 2021 | ) gbelik | Jun 28, 2021 | geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Fiction.
Literature.
HTML: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. Recently, it has dawned on her that he isn't the only man who has left town. In fact, there are almost no men in the village â?? they've all gone north. While watching The Magnificent Seven, Nayeli decides to go north herself and recruit seven men â?? her own "Siete Magnv?ficos" â?? to repopulate her hometown and protect it from the bandidos who plan on taking it over. Filled with unforgettable characters and prose as radiant as the Sinaloan sun, Into the Beautiful North is the story of an irresistible young woman's quest to find herself on both sides of t Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
Deelnemer aan LibraryThing Vroege RecensentenLuis Alberto Urrea's boek Into the Beautiful North was beschikbaar via LibraryThing Early Reviewers.  
LibraryThing-AuteurLuis Alberto Urrea is een LibraryThing auteur: een auteur die zijn persoonlijke bibliotheek toont op LibraryThing. Actuele discussiesGeenPopulaire omslagen
 Google Books — Bezig met laden...GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde: (3.85)
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A young woman, Nayeli, 19, notices that her small town in Mexico has no men, so she decides to head to the US to bring back seven men to help populate her town. Her aunt Irma, newly elected mayor of the town, encourages her to go. Nayeli also plans to go to IL to find her father who left years earlier.
Nayeli sets off with a small group and heads north to San Diego. They encounter a cast of characters on the way, as well as the border patrol.
Nayeli grows up on this trip, and realizes that the boy she thought she loved, as well as her father, are not the men she expected them to be. (