Into the beautiful North
Subtitle: a novel
By: Luis Alberto Urrrea.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780316025270
Subjects: Young women -- Mexico -- Fiction; City and town life -- Mexico -- Fiction; Brigands and robbers -- Mexico -- Fiction; Illegal aliens -- United States -- Fiction; Return migration -- Mexico -- Fiction; Mexico -- Emigration and immigration -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Table of contents: title: "Nineteen-year-old Nayeli works at a taco shop in her Mexican village and dreams about her father, who journeyed to the US when she was young. 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; title: they've all gone north. While watching The Magnificent Seven, Nayeli decides to go north herself and recruit seven men; title: her own "Siete Magníficos"; title: to repopulate her hometown and protect it from the bandidos who plan on taking it over."; title: Provided by publisher.