The Water Museum Stories [Paperback]

NAMED NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR byWashington Post, BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR:Kirkus Reviews, NPR,Men's Journal

A new short story collection from Luis Alberto Urrea, bestselling author ofThe Hummingbird's DaughterandThe Devil's Highway.

From one of America's preeminent literary voices comes a new story collection that proves once again why the writing of Luis Alberto Urrea has been called wickedly good (Kansas City Star), cinematic and charged (Cleveland Plain Dealer),and studded with delights (Chicago Tribune). Examining the borders between one nation and another, between one person and another, Urrea reveals his mastery of the short form. This collection includes the Edgar-award winning Amapola and his now-classic Bid Farewell to Her Many Horses, which had the honor of being chosen for NPR's Selected Shorts not once but twice.

Suffused with wanderlust, compassion, and no small amount of rock and roll, THE WATER MUSEUM is a collection that confirms Luis Alberto Urrea as an American master.A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize,Luis Alberto Urreais the bestselling author ofThe Devil's Highway,The Hummingbird's Daughter,Into the Beautiful North, andQueen of America, among others. He has won the Lannan Literary Award, the Pacific Rim Kiriyama Prize, an American Book Award, the Christopher Award, and an Edgar Award, among other honors. Born in Tijuana to a Mexican father and American mother, he lives outside of Chicago and is a distinguished professor of creative writing at the University of Illinois-Chicago. All 13 stories are realistic and unsparing, as unflinching and hard-hitting as they are beautiful. It's difficult to find comparisons to an author as original as Urrea, a kind of literary badass who still believes in love.The Water Museumis a brilliant, powerful collection, and Luis Alberto Urrea is a master storytellerl¡