Fiction

The Color of Water many years ago. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Storeis amazing and wonderful.

I'm about halfway thru Luis Alberto Urrea's, Into the Beautiful North

Here's a blurb from amazon:

Nineteen-year-old Nayeli works at a taco shop in her Mexican village and dreams about her father, who journeyed to the US to find work. 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 Magnv?ficos" -- to repopulate her hometown and protect it from the bandidos who plan on taking it over.

This book has had me choking with laughter several nights in a row. Urrea's writing is clear and flows like water. His characters just jump right off the page. The only problem is that my high school Spanish is inadequate, so I know I'm missing out on more of the humor.