The Water Museum: Stories

This hard-hitting, beautiful short story collection from one of America's preeminent literary voices "reflect[s] both sides of his Mexican-American heritage while stretching the reader's understanding of human boundaries" (Kirkus).

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.

Author: Luis Alberto Urrea
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Published: 04/07/2015
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.70w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780316334372
Award: PEN/Faulkner Award - Finalist

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2015
Publishers Weekly 02/16/2015
Booklist 03/15/2015 pg. 44
Library Journal 04/01/2015 pg. 87
Kirkus Best Fiction 11/15/2015 pg. 41

About the Author
A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his landmark work of nonficiton The Devil's Highway, Luis Alberto Urrea is also the bestselling author of the novels The Hummingbird's Daughter, Into the Beautiful North, and Queen of America, as well as the story collection The Water Museum, a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist.

He has won the Lannan Literary Award, an Edgar Award, and a 2017 American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, among many other honors. Born in Tijuana to a Mexican father and American mother, he lives outside of Chicago and teaches at the University of Illinois-Chicago.