Into the beautiful North : a novel
/ Luis Alberto Urrea
- New York : Little, Brown and Company , 2009
- 342 p. ; 25 cm.
Nineteen-year-old Nayeli works at a taco shop in her Mexican village and dreams about her father, who journeyed to the US when she was young. 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 Magníficos" - to repopulate her hometown and protect it from the bandidos who plan on taking it over.
Translated from the Spanish to English.
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Young women---Mexico----Fiction City and town life---Mexico----Fiction Brigands and robbers---Mexico----Fiction Illegal aliens---Fiction Return migration---Mexico----Fiction