![]() ![]() Unfolding over the course of a single raucous weekend, novel and party move from the Bavarian Chalet of Rest funeral home to a tract house in a Mexican neighborhood of San Diego, “bulging elastically like an old cartoon - music and dust flying out through the gaping junctures of the bouncing, jiving walls.”īig Angel de la Cruz, epicenter of his extended Mexican-American family, is in the final days of terminal disease but this “All-Father, Mexican Odin” has never been more alive. The reader of his generous, big-hearted novel “The House of Broken Angels” is welcomed into an epic doubleheader of celebrations: the funeral of a Mexican-American matriarch followed by the 74th birthday party of her cancer-ridden son. ![]() Born in Tijuana and raised in San Diego, son of a Mexican father and Anglo mother, prolific novelist, poet and nonfiction writer Luis Alberto Urrea is a border crosser between cultures and genres. ![]()
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