#345 Amapola- Luis Alberto-Urrea
An eighteen year old boy falls in love with his best friend's
sister. The two friends are high school outcasts, Goth kids and inseparable. Popo,
aka The Pope is Mexican and lives with his Uncle, they are rich and probably drug
cartel connected. The narrator is a poor American and comes from a broken home.
When he falls for Popo’s sister, it doesn’t go over well,
but like most forbidden love, it persists and will not be denied. Popo comes
around, but his Uncle, and worse his father who visits to check on this
“gringo” after his precious daughter, have other ideas. In the end love will be
tested, lives changed, and innocence lost. Isn’t that how these all end?
Urrea has a great, natural, story telling pace, reminds me
of David Eggers a little. Many of the authors I read for this project I will
probably not read past this blog, but I will certainly try to pick up Urrea’s
longer fiction works. I can see why this collection was a Pulitzer finalist.
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