Some bad things happen to wonderful people in Luis Alberto Urrea's new novel, "Into the Beautiful North." Sleazy criminals from a narco cartel are threatening to set up a center of operations in the peaceful Mexican village of Tres Camarones, which lies south of Mazatlan on the coast.

When a close-knit trio of three young women and the owner of the town's taqueria and Internet cafe decide to venture north on an arduous bus trip to Tijuana, they find the city threatening and o ...

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