![]() ![]() This indelible portrait of a complex family reminds us of what it means to be the first generation and to live two lives across one border. The story of the De La Cruzes is the American story. Across one bittersweet weekend in their San Diego neighborhood, the revelers mingle among the palm trees and cacti, celebrating the lives of Big Angel and his mother, and recounting the many tales that have passed into family lore, the acts both ordinary and heroic that brought them to a fraught and sublime country and allowed them to flourish in the land they have come to call home. But as the party approaches, his mother, nearly one hundred, dies herself, leading to a farewell doubleheader. The definitive Mexican-American immigrant story, at once intimate and epic, from an acclaimed storytellerIn his final days, beloved and ailing patriarch Miguel Angel De La Cruz, known affectionately as Big Angel, has summoned his entire clan for one last legendary birthday party. ![]()
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