Cantú, co-founding member and Board President of La Sala, a Seattle-area organization that creates and catalyzes opportunities for Latino/a/x artists and arts organizations. “After reading over a dozen other books by Latinx authors, ‘The House of Broken Angels’ rose to the top because it reminded me of my own familia with its heartfelt humor and intergenerational family drama in a West Coast setting,” said Catalina M. The Washington Post called “The House of Broken Angels” a “pan-generational family saga with an enormous, bounding heart, a poetic delivery and plenty of swagger,” and the Boston Globe called it "an immensely charming and moving tale.” The Seattle Times chose the novel for its May 2020 book club. In the book, the De La Cruzes, a family on the Mexican-American border, celebrate two of their most beloved relatives during a joyous and bittersweet weekend. “Urrea is a generous storyteller of the first rank, and we are thrilled to bring him to Seattle for our first in-person Seattle Reads events in three years.” “In ‘The House of Broken Angels,’ Urrea masterfully handles big themes like grief, death and Mexican American identity, leavening them with humor and joy,” said Stesha Brandon, Literature & Humanities programs manager for The Seattle Public Library. Seattle Reads, the citywide book group started by The Seattle Public Library in 1998, has announced its book selection for 2022: “The House of Broken Angels,” the bestselling 2018 novel by renowned Mexican American writer Luis Alberto Urrea.
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