By Luis Alberto Urrea
Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Back Bay Books, 2009
Genre: General fiction
ISBN: 9780316025263
Audience: Adult, young adult
Number of pages: 338
Setting: Tres Camarones & Tijuana, Mexico, San Diego, CA, & Kankakee, IL
Time period: Contemporary
Plot summary: When narcos come to the sleepy town of Tres Camarones, nineteen year old Nayeli, comes up with a brilliant plan for getting rid of them. Inspired by the movie, The Magificient Seven, she and three of her friends embark on a mission to find seven warriors (cops or soldiers) to drive off the bandits and help repopulate the town. Nayeli hopes to travel as far as Kankakee, IL to find her father, who (along with most of the other town’s men) left many years earlier in search of work. Continue reading
