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Inspired by his own mother, Luis Alberto Urrea’s Good Night, Irene, is a loving tribute to friendship and the heroism of women during World War II. To escape an abusive fiancé, Irene enlists with the Red Cross and heads off to Europe, becoming fast friends with another woman she met in training. While embedded with Allied soldiers, Irene falls for an American fighter pilot, and her only hope becomes that they all make it through alive. This empathetic chronicle of love and heartbreak in the face of war is a treasure that we can’t wait for readers to discover. Stay tuned for a Poured Over Podcast in June with Luis Alberto Urrea to discuss Good Night, Irene.
This New York Times bestselling novel tells an exhilarating World War II epic that chronicles an extraordinary young woman’s heroic frontline service in the Red Cross.
“Urrea’s touch is sure, his exuberance carries you through . . . He is a generous writer, not just in his approach to his craft but in the broader sense of what he feels necessary to capture about life itself.” —Financial Times
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