Portrait Of: Luis Alberto Urrea, Mexican-American Chronicler
Portrait Of: Luis Alberto Urrea, Mexican-American Chronicler
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Luis Alberto Urrea is one of the foremost chroniclers of the Mexican-American experience in the written word. His new book, “The House of Broken Angels,” is fiction, but based on an actual event in the writer’s life. Urrea’s stepbrother was turning 74 and dying of cancer—so his family decided to throw him one last blow-out birthday party. Maria Hinojosa talks to the Mexican-American writer about his latest novel and startling readers in Trump’s America.