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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 -- they've all gone north. While watching The Magnificent Seven, Nayeli decides to go north herself and recruit seven men -- her own "Siete Magnv?ficos" -- 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 the fence.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Nayeli, the Taqueria worker of Urrea's fine new novel (after The Hummingbird's Daughter), is a young woman in the poor but tight-knit coastal Mexican town of Tres Camarones who spends her days serving tacos and helping her feisty aunt Irma get elected as the town's first female mayor. Abandoned by her father who headed north for work years before, Nayeli is hit with the realization that her hometown is all but abandoned by men, leaving it at the mercy of drug gangsters. So Nayeli hatches an elaborate scheme inspired by The Magnificent Seven: with three friends, she heads north to find seven Mexican men and smuggle them back into Mexico to protect the town. What she discovers along the way, of course, surprises her. Urrea's poetic sensibility and journalistic eye for detail in painting the Mexican landscape and sociological complexities create vivid, memorable scenes. Though the Spanglish can be tough for the uninitiated to detangle, the colorful characters, strong narrative and humor carry this surprisingly uplifting and very human story. (May)
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"[A] lush, rollicking novel of quests, self-discovery, and romance." ---Booklist Starred Review

Product details

• File Size: 1116 KB
• Print Length: 364 pages
• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company; 1 edition (April 29, 2009)
• Publication Date: May 19, 2009
• Language: English
• ASIN: B0027Z5MIG
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled 
• X-Ray:
  Not Enabled 
• Word Wise: Enabled
• Lending: Not Enabled
• Screen Reader: Supported 
• Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled 
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #21,622 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
• #40 in Hispanic American Literature & Fiction
• #18 in Hispanic American Literature
• #11 in Historical Caribbean & Latin American Fiction

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