Across a Hundred Mountains: A Novel Reyna Grande,
Publisher: Washington Square Press
ISBN: 0743269586
DDC: 813
Edition: Paperback; 2007-05-15
Summary:
After a tragedy separates her from her mother, Juana García leaves
her small town in Mexico to find her father, who left his family two
years earlier to find work in America and rise above the oppressive
poverty of his country. 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
themselves -- in a Tijuana jail -- in desperate circumstances, they
offer each other much needed material and spiritual support and
ultimately become linked forever in the most unexpected of ways.A
stunning and poignant story of migration, loss, and discovery, in
Across a Hundred Mountains, Reyna Grande puts a human face on the
controversial issue of immigration, helping readers to better
understand those who risk life and limb every day in pursuit of a
better life.
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