It’s the story of what happens when one Mexican American family living on the border comes together for a party — and a funeral. It’s a tender, joyous and intimate novel. And it’s especially timely as ...

“I think that whole thing — ‘what if we all read a book together’ — is a really beautiful concept,” said author Luis Alberto Urrea. “It kind of implies a unity, a togetherness which I think is really ...

The Angels in Luis Alberto Urrea’s The House of Broken Angels are far from ethereal-spirit types. Big Angel, his half-brother Little Angel, and their dead father Don Antonio, “El Primer Angel,” can be ...

All Luis Alberto Urrea wanted to do was write a short tribute to his late sibling. But President Trump got in his way. When his half-brother Juan died in 2016, Urrea was determined to write something ...

Luis Alberto Urrea’s “The House of Broken Angels” is a big, sprawling, messy, sexy, raucous house party of a book, a pan-generational family saga with an enormous, bounding heart, a poetic delivery ...

Little, Brown; $27, 326 pp. You know that feeling of when you’re out of town in some strange, fascinating, bustling city, and you don’t know quite where to look, pleasantly overpowered by the barrage ...

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