The prizewinning writer Luis Alberto Urrea's long-awaited novel is an epic mystical drama of a young woman's sudden sainthood in late 19th-century mexico. It is 1889, and the civil war is brewing in mexico. Sixteen year ...The prizewinning writer Luis Alberto Urrea's long-awaited novel is an epic mystical drama of a young woman's sudden sainthood in late 19th-century mexico. It is 1889, and the civil war is brewing in mexico. Sixteen year old teresita, illegitimate but beloved daughter of the wealthy and powerful rancher don tomas Urrea, wakes from the strangest dream - a dream that she has died.