EPISODE · Dec 27, 2016 · 11H 32M
Into the Beautiful North: A Novel -- Luis Alberto Urrea
from Audiobooks in Fiction, Coming of Age · host Luis Alberto Urrea
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/283210 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Into the Beautiful North: A Novel Author: Luis Alberto Urrea Narrator: Susan Ericksen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 32 minutes Release date: December 27, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: This powerful novel from a bestselling and Pulitzer Prize winning author tells the story of a young woman's journey—both emotionally and physically—as she travels north to America. 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.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/283210 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Into the Beautiful North: A Novel Author: Luis Alberto Urrea Narrator: Susan Ericksen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 32 minutes Release date: December 27, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: This powerful novel from a bestselling and Pulitzer Prize winning author tells the story of a young woman's journey—both emotionally and physically—as she travels north to America. 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.
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