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|  | | Across a Hundred Mountains
After a tragedy that separates her from her mother, Juana Garcia leaves her small town in Mexico to find her father who left his home and family two years before to find work in America, El Otro Lado, and rise above the oppressive poverty so many of his countrymen endure. Out of money and in need of someone to help her across the border, Juana meets Adelina Vasquez, a young woman who left her family in California to follow her lover to Mexico. Finding each other--in a Tijuana city jail--they offer each other much needed material and spiritual support and ultimately become linked in the most unexpected way.
Mexican immigration is one of the most talked about, controversial issues in the news today. Author Reyna Grande, who came to the United States when she was nine, has an insider's perspective that lends insight to this politically charged issue. Across a Hundred Mountains puts a human face on the epic story about those who make it across the border, those who never make it across, and those who are left behind.
p class="style3 style5" align="left">span class="style8">span class="style6">font size="3">em>Across a Hundred Mountains/em> is a stunning and poignant story of migration, loss, and discovery--as two women, one born in Mexico, one from the U.S., find their lives joined in the most unlikely way./font>/span>/span>
p class="style3 style6" align="left">span class="style8">After a tragedy that separates her from her mother, Juana Garcia leaves her small town in Mexico to find her father who left his home and family two years before to find work in America, El Otro Lado, and rise abo | |  | | Dancing with Butterflies
From the American Book Award-winning author of Across a Hundred Mountains, a new novel that renders a friendship among four women in Los Angeles, bound together by their Mexican roots and their love of Folklorico dance.
Dancing with Butterflies uses the alternating voices of four women in a dance company called Alegria to weave a story of friendship and love. Yesenia, who founded Alegria with her husband, suddenly finds herself unable to continue dancing and seeks salvation at a plastic surgery clinic in Tijuana. Elean, grief stricken by the death of her child and the end of her marriage, begins to fall dangerously in love with her underage student. Elena's sister, Adriana, wears the wounds of abandonment and becomes unable to discern love from abuse. Soledad, the sweet-tempered undocumented immigrant who | |  | | The Distance Between Us, a Memoir
From an award-winning novelist and sought-after public speaker, an eye-opening memoir about life before and after illegally immigrating from Mexico to the United States.
After publishing two acclaimed and award-winning novels about the Mexican immigrant experience and the families forced to navigate its twists and turns, celebrated author Reyna Grande reveals her own troubled and triumphant story as an illegal immigrant in the heartfelt memoir The Distance Between Us.
From an award-winning novelist and sought-after public speaker, an eye-opening memoir about life before and after illegally emigrating from Mexico to the United States.
Born in Mexico and raised by her grandparents after her parents left to find work in the U.S., at nine years old, Reyna enters the U.S. as an undocumented immigrant to live with her father. Filled with hope, she quickly realizes that life in America is far from perfect. Her father isn't the man she dreamed about all those years in Mexico. His big dreams for his children are what gets them across the border, but his alcoholism and rage undermine all his hard work and good intentions. Reyna finds solace from a violent home in books and writing, inspired by the Latina voices she reads. A |
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