The Rad Librarian

Lovely writing makes this tale of a group of young Mexican women and one man’s  journey to the US and back a pure delight.  The small town near Culican is almost empty of men who have gone North and never returned, so Nayeli and her friends goes to recruit her own “Magnificent Seven” to reclaim their peaceful town from Narcos who have decided to stay.  It’s all about the journey and Urrea’s sympathy for the young women characters is particularly wonderful.

All you Twitteratti need to read this elegant book culled from his column in 1906 in the French newspaper Le Matin.  True crime listings, but in his hands, remarkably powerful in three short lines.