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

Luis Alberto Urrea's "Queen of America," completes the two-volume saga that began with "The Hummingbird's Daughter." Both follow the journey of a Mexican curandera...

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By Michael Silverblatt • Feb 28, 2013 • 28m Listen

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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