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Into the Beautiful North: A Novel: novel

✍ Scribed by Urrea, Luis Alberto

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Weight: 162 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN: 0316149241

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✦ Synopsis

"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."--Provided by publisher.;"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." -- Provided by publisher.

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