In the last days of his life, Miguel Angel de La Cruz, aka Big Angel, decides to throw one last birthday party and invites his entire family to the feast, but as the party approaches, his mother dies. Having to organize a birthday party and a funeral at the same time, Big Angel and his family will have a bittersweet weekend.

The story of the family that embarks on a long journey between birth and death, beginning and end, is the story of the true home, the homeland that is being searched for, in this weekend where memories will be reminisced, dreams and disappointments will be revealed from both sides of the Mexico-US border.

House of Angels with Broken Wings is a sometimes sad and sometimes hopeful novel about today's American dream from Pulitzer Prize finalist Luis Alberto Urrea.

Life and death have never been so powerfully intertwined.