![]() And it was a strange thing because he had been dying of cancer for a while, and his 74th birthday was approaching. Three years ago, my elder brother, Juan, died. SIMON: Premise of this story comes out of your own family, doesn't it? Luis Alberto Urrea, author of "The Hummingbird's Daughter" and other best sellers, teaches at the University of Illinois, Chicago and is recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, joins us from Chicago. And myriad garage kingdoms developed as unemployed children came home to mama, (speaking Spanish). ![]() LUIS ALBERTO URREA: All the houses had bars on the windows, beige walls with bits of brick trim, asphalt and gravel shingles on the roofs, four bedrooms and a living room, two bathrooms and a nice kitchen/dining area by the sliding door to the quarter-acre backyard. ![]() Luis Alberto Urrea's novel, "The House Of Broken Angels," puts us at the heart of a family that confronts life and death with every breath and a distinct place, San Diego and its sprawling and vivacious Mexican-American neighborhoods, which the author so lyrically describes. ![]()
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