It is the melting-pot amalgam of two cultures, and two languages, and too much history about a family that encompasses all of this, a family that is real and believable because in fact this is what an increasing, perhaps preponderating, majority of families are like - in San Diego and all along the US – Mexico border. It is written in a language not classically literary, and yet exactly accurate and appropriate to the place, the time, and the people. “The House of Broken Angels” is the first Great San Diego novel. One of the Best Books of the Year from National Public Radio, American Library Association, San Francisco Chronicle, BookPage, Newsday, BuzzFeed, Kirkus, St. National Bestseller and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist "An immensely charming and moving tale." ( Boston Globe) "Intimate and touching.the stuff of legend." ( San Francisco Chronicle) " entertaining." ( New York Times Book Review) Teeming with brilliance and humor, authentic at every turn, The House of Broken Angels is Luis Alberto Urrea at his best, and cements his reputation as a storyteller of the first rank. Among the guests is Big Angel's half brother, known as Little Angel, who must reckon with the truth that although he shares a father with his siblings, he has not, as a half gringo, shared a life.Īcross two bittersweet days in their San Diego neighborhood, the revelers mingle among the palm trees and cacti, celebrating the lives of Big Angel and his mother, and recounting the many inspiring tales that have passed into family lore, the acts both ordinary and heroic that brought these citizens to a fraught and sublime country and allowed them to flourish in the land they have come to call home.
But as the party approaches, his mother, nearly 100, dies, transforming the weekend into a farewell doubleheader. In his final days, beloved and ailing patriarch Miguel Angel de La Cruz, affectionately called Big Angel, has summoned his entire clan for one last legendary birthday party. In this "raucous, moving, and necessary" story by a Pulitzer Prize finalist ( San Francisco Chronicle ), the De La Cruzes, a family on the Mexican-American border, celebrate two of their most beloved relatives during a joyous and bittersweet weekend.
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