Novel of laureate of prestige bonus American Book Awards and пулитцеровского nominee is a heartfelt domestic saga about the Mexican clan de Ла Крусов. A few ten of years back Antonio de Ла Крус got over from Mexico to nearby California, so history of getting used in stranger reality, lasting three generations, began. And Mexican family already appealed to family American, and their vast clan is headed by patriarch that all call Senior Ангел. An evening-party concerning his anniversary coincides with поминками, and all de Ла Крусы first gather under one roof, to remember, laugh, brawl, cry, sad and be glad. Even Junior Ангел that always was an alien in family arrives. It is history about that, which it is - to live two lives, feeling at once and by it, and stranger| about that, where a border passes, that dissociates your life from stranger. Complete humour, jokes, a novel of Louis Урреа is the real domestic holiday that sometimes so is not enough.Contains an unprintable bad language!