Across a Hundred Mountains

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 sets out in search of her father, who had left them two years earlier. Out of money and in need of help to cross 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 humanizes the contentious issue of immigration, enabling readers to gain a deeper understanding of "the desperation of illegal immigrants and the families they leave behind" (Entertainment Weekly) in their pursuit of a better life.