num_pages: 266
description: Winner of the American Book Award, Across a Hundred Mountains is a “timely and riveting” ( People ) novel about a young girl who leaves her small town in Mexico to find her father, who left his family to work in America—a story of migration, loss, and discovery.After a tragedy separates her from her mother, Juana García leaves in search of her father, who left them two years earlier. 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.In Across a Hundred Mountains , Reyna Grande puts a human face on the controversial issue of immigration, helping readers to better understand “the desperation of illegal immigrants and the families they leave behind” ( Entertainment Weekly ) in pursuit of a better life.
language: English
title: Across a Hundred Mountains
titlecomplete: Across a Hundred Mountains
genres: Young Adult, School, Literary Fiction, Novels, Book Club, Coming Of Age, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Read For School, Contemporary
ratings_count: 2274
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: American Book Award, awardedAt: 1672560000000
name: Audie Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Premio Aztlán Literary Prize
publisher: Washington Square Press