The Water Museum - by Luis Alberto Urrea (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>From one of America's preeminent literary voices comes a story collection that proves once again why the writing of Luis Alberto Urrea has been called wickedly good (<i>Kansas City Star</i>), cinematic and charged (<i>Cleveland Plain Dealer</i>), and studded with delights (<i>Chicago Tribune</i>).</b> <p/> Examining the borders between one nation and another, between one person and another, Urrea reveals his mastery of the short form. This collection includes the Edgar-award winning Amapola and his now-classic Bid Farewell to Her Many Horses, which had the honor of being chosen for NPR's Selected Shorts not once but twice. <p/> Suffused with wanderlust, compassion, and no small amount of rock and roll, <i>The Water Museum</i> is a collection that confirms Luis Alberto Urrea as an American master.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><b>Urrea has a wonderful eye for details and captures each story's context with wonderfully sharp observations</b>... These stories are vibrant, tender, and invoke a strong sense of place.--<i><b>Publishers Weekly</b></i><br><br>All 13 stories are realistic and unsparing, as unflinching and hard-hitting as they are beautiful. It's difficult to find comparisons to an author as original as Urrea, a kind of literary badass who still believes in love. <b><i>The Water Museum</i> is a brilliant, powerful collection, and Luis Alberto Urrea is a master storyteller with a rock and roll heart.</b>--<i><b>NPR.org</b></i><br><br>Urrea, celebrated for his historical sagas and nonfiction, offers 13 stories that reflect both sides of his Mexican-American heritage while stretching the reader's understanding of human boundaries...<b>Urrea's command of language is matched only by his empathy for his characters.</b>--<i><b>Kirkus (Starred Review)</b></i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his landmark work of nonficiton <i>The Devil's Highway</i>, <b>Luis Alberto Urrea</b> is also the bestselling author of the novels <i>The Hummingbird's Daughter</i>, <i>Into the Beautiful North</i>, and <i>Queen of America</i>, as well as the story collection <i>The Water Museum</i>, a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist. <p/> He has won the Lannan Literary Award, an Edgar Award, and a 2017 American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, among many other honors. Born in Tijuana to a Mexican father and American mother, he lives outside of Chicago and teaches at the University of Illinois-Chicago.
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