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Luis Alberto Urrea, author of the widely acclaimed novel The Hummingbird's Daughter and 2005 Pulitzer Prize finalist for nonfiction for The Devil's Highway, reads from Into the Beautiful North, a young woman's quest to find herself on both sides of the fence. He explains how he based one of the heroes of the book on a figure from his childhood, Tachito el Machito, the only openly gay man he knew.