2010 Summer Newsletter - Round-Trip Mexico

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Round-Trip Mexico

The Madonnas of Echo Park (Hardcover)

By Brando Skyhorse
$23.00
ISBN-13: 9781439170809
Availability: Not currently in the store – Usually ships in 1-5 days
Published: Free Press, 6/2010
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THE MADONNAS OF ECHO PARK (Free Press, $23), by first-time novelist Brandon Skyhorse, tells the story of a community of Mexican-Americans living in Los Angeles.  The group includes a bus driver, a cleaning lady, a student, a retail clerk, a mom, and a gang member. The lives of this disparate bunch of middle-class people are affected—some immediately and some tangentially—by an act of senseless violence. Skyhorse unfolds the narrative with enormous compassion and beauty; it resonates long after you put down the book. - Mark LaFramboise

Into the Beautiful North (Paperback)

By Luis Alberto Urrea
$14.99
ISBN-13: 9780316025263
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Back Bay Books, 6/2010
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Luis Alberto Urrea’s INTO THE BEAUTIFUL NORTH (Back Bay, $14.99) is a particularly lovely and haunting variation on the quest novel. Joblessness and poverty have chased all the men from Tres Camarones, a tiny, remote village in the Mexican state of Sinaloa. But when drug bandits threaten to overpower the town, the feisty, teenaged Nayeli and her three friends vow to sneak across the U.S. border and bring their fathers and brothers home. After a terrifying interlude in crime-ridden Tijuana, the ragtag group does make it to “El Norte” and back again– but with surprising, bittersweet results. - Elizabeth Sher

Trouble (Paperback)

By Kate Christensen
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780307390943
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Published: Anchor, 6/2010
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Josie is bored. Her marriage has soured and she's ready for something different and better. Her best friend, Raquel, is a recovering addict and has-been rock-star whose relationship with a man half her age has exploded all over the blogosphere. Fragile and devastated, Raquel persuades Josie to escape to Mexico City with her for a week of relaxation, tequila, and lurid sexual encounters. In TROUBLE (Anchor, $15), Kate Christensen’s women find freedom South of the border as they redefine themselves in their middle age. Not content to sit back with tea and a bad novel as their bosoms and bottoms sag, these women absolutely love their mid-life crisis. - Lacey Dunham