Commonwealth Club Silicon Valley & Mexican Heritage Plaza Present
Reyna Grande, author of Across a Hundred Mountains
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Date: Thursday, June 29, 2006
Time: 6:30 p.m. Registration: 7:00 p.m. Program: 8:00 p.m.
Book Signing Location: The Plaza
Price: $5 Members; $10 Non-Members; Students (18 and under) FREE
Co-Sponsored: Mexican Heritage Plaza
Reservations: call 1-800-847-7730 or register online at www.commonwealthclub.org/sv.html
This program is part of the "Salon de Mexico” series bringing influential speakers to the Bay Area to discuss the leading issues affecting the Latino community today.
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Reyna Grande’s debut novel Across a Hundred Mountains pays homage to the millions of undocumented immigrants who enter the U.S.
Her story humanizes the faceless politics of immigration offering a unique perspective about those that make it across, those who don’t’ and those who are left behind.
At the tender age of 9, Grande herself entered the United States as an illegal immigrant and later became the first member in her family to receive a college diploma. In 2003, Grande was selected as one of the eight fellows in the Emerging Voices program sponsored by the Pen Center USA.
