Join us in the meeting room for an in-pers on book discussion.
\nSummary provided by the publisher: "In his fin al days\, beloved and ailing patriarch Miguel Angel de La Cruz\, affection ately called Big Angel\, has summoned his entire clan for one last legenda ry birthday party. But as the party approaches\, his mother\, nearly one h undred\, dies\, transforming the weekend into a farewell doubleheader. Amo ng the guests is Big Angel&rsquo\;s half brother\, known as Little Angel\, who must reckon with the truth that although he shares a father with his siblings\, he has not\, as a half gringo\, shared a life. Across two bitte rsweet days in their San Diego neighborhood\, the revelers mingle among th e palm trees and cacti\, celebrating the lives of Big Angel and his mother \, and recounting the many inspiring tales that have passed into family lo re\, the acts both ordinary and heroic that brought these citizens to a fr aught and sublime country and allowed them to flourish in the land they ha ve come to call home."
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