We are so excited to feature this month’s book club reading “A Ballad of Love and Glory: A Novel” by California author Reyna Grande. Reyna shares how she wrote this novel to learn more about the war, or invasion of Mexico and to better understand the U.S.-Mexican border. In this novel, the reader is taken to the year 1846 when the war is intensifying and tells the story of a … [Read more...] about A Ballad of Love and Glory: A Novel by Reyna Grande #ModernLatinaBookClub
Reyna Grande
Across a hundred mountains by Reyna Grande #ModernLatinaBookClub
by Mona Lisa Sharp Reyna Grande’s earnest novel “Across a hundred mountains” addresses a subject that has been in today’s news- illegal immigrants, their families and what pushes them to risk their lives. In Grande’s novel, she describes the story of two girls, Juana and Adelina, and the experiences that collide their worlds together. The book follows a unique storyline by … [Read more...] about Across a hundred mountains by Reyna Grande #ModernLatinaBookClub
Interview with Award-Winning Novelist Reyna Grande
“En la tierra seremos reinas, y de verídico reinar, y siendo grandes nuestros reinos, llegaremeos todas al mar." -"Todas íbamos a ser reinas," Gabriela Mistral, TALA 1938 by Marcela Davison Aviles In the great tradition of Maria Grever, Alfonsia Storni, Sandra Cisneros, Juana de Ibarbourou, and Gabriela Mistral, a new Latina voice emerges to tell the stories of … [Read more...] about Interview with Award-Winning Novelist Reyna Grande