Across a Hundred Mountains: A Novel - Hardcover

Grande, Reyna

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0743269578 ISBN 13: 9780743269575

Publisher: Atria, 2006

Synopsis

Leaving her small Mexico hometown after years of caring for her mother, Juana Garcia embarks on a search for the father who disappeared nineteen years earlier and teams up with Adelina Vasquez, who left her family to pursue forbidden love. 25,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

Reyna Grande, nació en Guerrero, México, en 1975, a los nueve años vino a los Estados Unidos siguiendo a sus padres. En 1999, se graduó de la Universidad de California en Santa Cruz y, en 2003, recibió la beca Rosenthal a Voces Emergentes que otorga el PEN Center USA. Vive en Los Ángeles con su hijo. Visite su página en la Internet: www.reynagrande.com.

From Publishers Weekly:

Starred Review. Grande, a 2003 PEN Emerging Voices Fellow, turns in a topical and heartbreaking border story for her debut. Juana, 11, loses her baby sister in a flood, and the death sets off a chain of tragic events: her money-strapped father heads north from their small Mexican town for el otro lado; Juana's newborn baby brother is claimed by the town money lender; and Juana's mother descends into alcoholism and violence. At 14, Juana leaves to look for her father, from whom they have heard nothing. On her painstaking journey, she meets Adelina Vasquez, an American runaway working as a prostitute in Tijuana, who takes Juana in. The narrative switches off between young Juana's viewpoint, and that of Andelina, now 31 and a Los Angeles social worker, who returns to Mexico to find her own father and reunite with her mother. Grande's deft portraiture endows even the smallest characters with grace, and the two stories cross and re-cross in unexpected ways, driving toward a powerful conclusion. (June)
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About this edition

• Publisher: Atria
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0743269578
• ISBN 13: 9780743269575
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272