The house of broken angels
Urrea, Luis Alberto2019
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Prizewinning and bestselling writer Luis Urrea has written his Mexican coming-to-America story, his masterpiece. Destined to sit alongside other classic immigrant novels, 'The House of Broken Angels' is a sprawling and epic family saga helmed 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, occasioned by his imminent death at the hands of that familiar killer cancer. But when Big Angel's mother Mama America passes as the party nears, he must plan her funeral as well, and so decides to throw two family affairs in one weekend: a farewell double-header.
Main title:
The house of broken angels / Luis Alberto Urrea.
Author:
Urrea, Luis Alberto, author
Imprint:
London : John Murray, 2019.
Collation:
326 pages ; 23 cm
Notes:
Originally published: New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2018.
ISBN:
9781529359299 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
813.6
Language:
English
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BRN:
2265518
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