By Luis Alberto Urrea
At turns heartbreaking, uplifting, fiercely romantic, and riotously humorous, QUEEN OF the USA tells the unforgettable tale of a tender girl coming of age and discovering her position in a brand new global. starting the place Luis Alberto Urrea's bestselling The Hummingbird's Daughter left off, QUEEN OF the United States reveals younger Teresita Urrea, cherished healer and "Saint of Cabora," along with her father in 1892 Arizona. yet, besieged through pilgrims in determined want of her therapeutic powers, and pursued by way of assassins, she has no selection yet to escape the borderlands and embark on a unprecedented trip into the center of turn-of-the-century the US.
Teresita's passage will take her to long island, San Francisco, and St. Louis, the place she is going to stumble upon eu royalty, Cuban poets, attractiveness queens, fearful immigrants and grand tycoons-and, between them, a guy who will strength Teresita to ultimately ask herself the final word query: is a saint allowed to fall in love?
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