With his 2009 novel "Into the Beautiful North," Luis Alberto Urrea took a familiar story " of would-be immigrants traversing the U.S.-Mexico border " and turned it on its head. Urrea's characters weren't looking to join the U.S. population, but to reduce it, by rounding up men from their own country...
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 06:00PM on March 30, 2017