Side-by-side book covers of “Nobody’s Son” and “Across the Wire” by Luis Alberto Urrea. The first cover features a silhouetted figure beneath a glowing sky; the second shows a sepia-toned photo of families at the U.S.-Mexico border, framed with barbed wire and textured orange.

Luis Alberto Urrea followed us back! 𝘈𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘪𝘳𝘦 and 𝘕𝘰𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺’𝘴 𝘚𝘰𝘯 hit me so deep I wrote him a letter back in 2001—before college, before everything. His work lit the path forward. Grateful. Humbled. That echo still rings.

Thank you @urrealism.bsky.social

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