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furious about the current state of border politics?

Luis Alberto Ureia will join us to talk about his new novel, The House of Broken Angels.

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Alexander Alter will give us an update from the publishing world, plus we'll talk about

what we and the wider world are reading.

This is Inside the New York Times Booker View.

I'm Pamela Paul.

Luis Alberto Ureia joins us from Seattle, where he is on Booktor.

He is the author of many books, including now his eighth novel, The House of Broken Angels,

but also five works of nonfiction and four books of poetry.

Luis, did I miss anything?

I don't think so.

All right, well, thank you for being here.

Thank you.

I'm going to read this novel, The House of Broken Angels, reviewed on our cover by Viet

Tanwen this week in the book review, a glowing review.

I understand that this book, which is your eighth novel, is particularly personal.

Can you tell us a little bit about the origins of the book?

Yeah, it happened interestingly enough in the middle of writing a different book.

I didn't intend to write this book, but my brother, my eldest brother, Juan, died after

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