Luis Alberto Urrea: The Hummingbird's Daughter and Queen of America

Bookworm

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4.5 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2013

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Luis Alberto Urrea's "Queen of America," completes the two-volume saga that began with "The Hummingbird's Daughter." Both follow the journey of a Mexican curandera...

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0:00.0	Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannin Foundation.
0:03.8	Boots!
0:09.0	Where would we be without boos?
0:12.7	Where would we be without good news in the bird?
0:16.5	It's a rhetorical question, sir, but where would we be without books?
0:23.7	From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Silverblatt, and this is Bookburn.
0:29.6	Today, well, I feel very privileged.
0:33.0	I have, as my guest, Luis Alberto Urea.
0:39.1	Have I said it right?
0:39.7	Beautifully.
0:40.4	Thank you. And I'm very surprised because over this past weekend, the beginning of this week, I've read two books, which are two volumes that go together.
0:55.0	They're a vast saga.
0:57.5	They're symphonic.
0:59.1	I consider them to be together a masterpiece.
1:04.7	I've been so impressed.
1:06.7	I chose it for the Angel Book Club.
1:10.6	The books are called The Hummingbird's Daughter.
1:14.9	The second volume is the Queen of Mexico.
1:19.3	And you couldn't have surprised me more because the books have been described to me as,
1:25.2	you know, new age or the last vestiges of magical realism. No. Luis is
1:32.6	a historian. He was born in Tijuana, raised with a Mexican... Mexican dad and an American mother.
1:45.0	New York City socialite mom.
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