Across a Hundred Mountains
A Novel
$33.16
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
2 July 2007
Summary
Winner of the American Book Award, Across a Hundred Mountains is a “timely and riveting” novel about a young woman who leaves her small Mexican town in search of her father—a story of migration, loss, and discovery.
20th Anniversary edition featuring forewords by award-winning, bestselling author Maria Amparo Escandón and celebrated playwright and father of Chicano theater, Luis Valdez.
When a sudden tragedy separates her from her mother, Juana García risks everything…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780743269582 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0743269586 |
| Author: | Reyna Grande |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Imprint: | Scribner |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 2 July 2007 |
| Weight: | 200g |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 135mm x 210mm |
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Critics Review
“YGrande? endows even the smallest character with grace.”– “Publishers Weekly”
”[Grande] endows even the smallest character with grace.” – Publishers Weekly
“A topical and heartbreaking border story … Two stories cross and re-cross in unexpected ways, driving toward a powerful conclusion.” – Publishers Weekly
“In Across a Hundred Mountains, Reyna Grande beguiles with the spare, unadorned prose of a fabulist, then stuns with emotional truths of shattering complexity… . Across a Hundred Mountains is truly something rare, an intimate story about a great journey … a tale full of memorable characters and even more memorable truths.” – Javier Grillo-Marxuach, writer/producer of Lost and Boomtown
“Fabulous! There aren’t many books that become so alive and real for me.” – Víctor Villaseñor, author of Rain of Gold
“Reyna Grande knows the heartbreaking worlds on either side of the border, where men are desperate, women are prey, and children want what they always want: the presence of love.” – Susan Straight, author of Highwire Moon
”[Across a Hundred Mountains is] one of the most exciting fictional debuts in years. It’s a wonderful journey, a fast-paced, reader-friendly story that takes you in and out of different worlds. It shows the harshness and complexity of life on two sides of the US-Mexico border, in an authentic landscape that is beautiful and sad.” – Daniel Chacón, author of And the Shadows Took Him
Reyna Grande
Reyna Grande is an award-winning author, motivational speaker, and writing teacher. As a young girl, she crossed the US–Mexico border to join her family in Los Angeles, a harrowing journey chronicled in The Distance Between Us, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. Her other books include the novels A Ballad of Love and Glory, Across a Hundred Mountains, and Dancing with Butterflies, the memoirs Migrant Heart, The Distance Between Us: Young Readers Edition, and A Dream Called Home, and the anthology Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings. She lives in Woodland, California, with her husband and two children.
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