Nineteen-year-old Nayeli works at a taco shop in her Mexican village and dreams about her father, who had journeyed to the U.S. to find work. "Into the Beautiful North" is the story of a young woman's quest to find herself on both sides of the fence.

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, Queen of America, The House of Broken Angels, and Good Night, Irene, 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.