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"In Urrea's exuberant new novel of Mexican-American life, 70-year-old patriarch Big Angel de la Cruz is dying, and he wants to have one last birthday blowout. Unfortunately, his 100-year-old mother, America, dies the week of his party, so funeral and birthday are celebrated one day apart. The entire contentious, riotous de la Cruz clan descends on San Diego for the events--"High rollers and college students, prison veternaos and welfare mothers, happy...
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New Yorker Alex Whitman, in Las Vegas to supervise the construction of a casino, shares one night of passion with Isabel Fuentes and does not see her again until three months later when she tells him she is pregnant, and while love grows between them after their spur-of-the-moment wedding, the clash between their cultures threatens to tear them apart.
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