Luis alberto urrea, a member of the latino literature hall of fame and a 2005 pulitzer prize finalist for nonfiction discusses his latest novel. Mar 12, 2020 the hummingbird s daughter is a vast, hugely satisfying novel of love and loss, joy and pain. Urreas muchpraised recent work, the devils highway, was a journalistic recreation of the deaths of 14 mexicans who crossed illegally into the u. Urrea meticulously captures daytoday life among the poor farmers and their populist beliefs in their saint.
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