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Across a Hundred Mountains

Name: Across a Hundred Mountains
Rating: 5.0 (4 reviews)
ISBN: 9780743269582

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Across a Hundred Mountains is a stunning and poignant story of migration, loss, and discovery as two women -- one born in Mexico, one in the United States -- find their lives joined in the most unlikely way. After a tragedy separates her from her mother, Juana García leaves her small town in Mexico to find her father, who left his home and family two years before to find work in America, el otro lado , and rise above the oppressive poverty so many of his countrymen endure. 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 each other -- 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 way. The phenomenon of Mexican immigration to the United States is one of the most controversial issues [...]of our time. Whil...

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Year:

2022

Publisher:

Atria Books

Language:

English

ISBN 10:

0743269586

ISBN 13:

9780743269582