Library book group reads ‘The House of Broken Angels’ this month
Photo of author Luis Alberto Urrea from luisurrea.com.
– The public is invited to join the discussion of Luis Alberto Urrea’s The House of Broken Angels, on Wednesday, Oct. 18, 6-7 p.m., in the Library Conference Room.
About the book
In this “raucous, moving, and necessary” story by a Pulitzer Prize finalist (San Francisco Chronicle), the De La Cruzes, a family on the Mexican-American border, celebrate two of their most beloved relatives during a joyous and bittersweet weekend. In his final days, beloved and ailing patriarch Miguel Angel de La Cruz, affectionately called Big Angel, has summoned his entire clan for one last legendary birthday party. But as the party approaches, his mother, nearly one hundred, dies, transforming the weekend into a farewell doubleheader. Among the guests is Big Angel’s half-brother, known as Little Angel, who must reckon with the truth that although he shares a father with his siblings, he has not, as a half gringo, shared a life.
Across two bittersweet days in their San Diego neighborhood, the revelers mingle among the palm trees and cacti, celebrating the lives of Big Angel and his mother, and recounting the many inspiring tales that have passed into family lore, the acts both ordinary and heroic that brought these citizens to a fraught and sublime country and allowed them to flourish in the land they have come to call home.
This title is available in print and on CD through the Black Gold Library System and as an ebook and audiobook on the OverDrive/Libby digital platform. This event is designed for ages 16 and up. Click here to register.
Call the library at (805) 237-3870 or visit prcity.com/library and the library’s Facebook and Instagram sites for more information.
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