Into the beautiful North : a novel / Luis Alberto Urrea.
By: Urrea, Luis Alberto.
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BookPublisher: New York : Back Bay Books, 2010, c2009Edition: 1st Back Bay pbk. ed.Description: 338 p. ; 21 cm.ISBN: 9780316025263 (pbk.); 0316025267.Subject(s): Young women -- Mexico -- Fiction | City and town life -- Mexico -- Fiction | Brigands and robbers -- Mexico -- Fiction | Illegal aliens -- United States -- Fiction | Return migration -- Mexico -- Fiction | Mexico -- Emigration and immigration -- Fiction | Young women -- Mexico -- Fiction | City and town life -- Mexico -- Fiction | Thieves -- Mexico -- Fiction | Illegal aliens -- United States -- Fiction | Return migration -- Mexico -- Fiction | Mexico -- Immigration and emigration -- FictionDDC classification: 813/.54 | [Fic] Summary: Nineteen-year-old Nayeli becomes very aware of the lack of men in Tres Camarones after watching the movie "The Magnificent Seven" at a local theater, and comes up with a plan to travel to the U.S.--Illinois specifically--and recruit a group of men to return with her to Mexico to protect and repopulate her remote village.
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Nineteen-year-old Nayeli becomes very aware of the lack of men in Tres Camarones after watching the movie "The Magnificent Seven" at a local theater, and comes up with a plan to travel to the U.S.--Illinois specifically--and recruit a group of men to return with her to Mexico to protect and repopulate her remote village.
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