Cindy and Luis Urrea
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Author Luis Alberto Urrea (The Hummingbird's Daughter) & his wife Cindy try to find their way through the world (kids, books, and all!
Joined February 2009
- Mexican firefighters heading into the Oregon fires. Drumpf can eat it.
- Today, Humane Borders in AZ paid us the great honor of christening the Luis & Cindy water station for migrants on The Devil’s Highway.
- In our name, this crime.This 4-month-old baby was separated from his parents at the border. Now he is nearly 2 and still can't speak or walk. bit.ly/2L7zS5F
- Readers added context they thought people might want to knowReaders added contextFalse. There is no evidence that Trump said this and it certainly never ran in People Magazine as this photo implies. Snopes thoroughly debunked this in 2015. snopes.com/fact-check/rep…
- Stephen Miller tested positive. The Covidiot in Chief is systematically annihilating his own team. I recommend that Miller go to an ICE detention center for some of that great care immigrants enjoy.
- We raised over $18,000 last night for the No More Deaths desert life savers. Heading out today with Humane Borders for some desert work. No more talk: take action.
- So. That radio show. Thanks for the nice things you’ve been saying. If you know me, you know I try to be a good literary citizen. Did I write to Ms. Cummins? Got a book from a bookseller one day. Thanked Cummins for the shout out. Then my wife started reading it. Um....yeah.
- Anglo lovers of A Certain Book About Bogus Mexicans write me such wisdom as: “It’s fiction! Fiction! Fiction!” Note to you folks: it takes a special kind of idiot to explain what fiction is to a fiction writer.
- Hey, this book drops tomorrow. Let’s show them the buying power of the Latinx community and make THIS book a bestseller! Preorder now, call your indie bookseller, share our stories! #DignidadLiteraria @marcelo_H_ @OprahsBooks @lesbrains @DavidOBowles #AmericanDirt












