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Nobody's Son
Nobody's Son: Notes from an American Life | Luis Alberto Urrea
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Born in Tijuana to a Mexican father and an Anglo mother, Urrea moved to San Diego at age three. In this memoir of his childhood, Urrea describes his experiences growing up in the barrio and his search for cultural identity.
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Booksnchill
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This review is for Urrea‘s short story “Christmas Eve, 1944”. The narrator‘s mother is a “clubmobile lady” taking coffee and donuts to the troops traveling from Paris to Belgium. On Christmas Eve 1944 she finds herself bombarded and hiding out in the basement of a ruined church with GI‘s. She is their mother- comforting them with fire, food and “O Holy Night”. A lovely story of Christmas in wartime and perseverance.

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Urrea‘s family dynamics with an American mother & a Mexican father lend substantive credibility to the theme of identity being of primary concern. But, it is Urrea‘s exploration of time and place, the ghosts and imprints that leave a mark but eventually disappear, and the (often hilarious) retellings of memories that provide the depth of content to make this a compelling read. Masterfully written, laugh-out-loud funny, and rich in substance.

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Reading in blips and patches is not the most efficient way to finish a book, but it does make the pick-up lane at my daughter‘s school more interesting. Nobody‘s Son by Luis Alberto Urrea is disarmingly funny, but deftly incisive.