Luis Alberto Urrea: The Hummingbird's Daughter and Queen of America

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Michael Silverblatt

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Luis Alberto Urrea's new novel, Queen of America (Back Bay Books), completes the two-volume saga that began with The Hummingbird's Daughter (Back Bay Books). Together, both novels follow the journey of Teresita Urrea, a Mexican curandera who finds herself in America at the technologically miraculous turn of the twentieth century. In Part One of a special two-part interview, Urrea talks about the mystical and political border crossings the books required of Teresita – and him. (Part Two airs March 7.)

Read an excerpt from The Hummingbird's Daughter.

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Luis Alberto Urrea: poet, novelist and essayist, @Urrealism

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