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Beyond Borders: Writing as Activism & Healing

February 5 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Free

Hear from Reyna Grande, author of the bestselling memoirs The Distance Between Us (Atria, 2012) and A Dream Called Home (Atria, 2018), where she writes about her life before and after she arrived in the United States from Mexico as an undocumented child immigrant.  Grande has also authored several novels and co-edited an anthology by and about undocumented Americans called Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival and New Beginnings (HarperVia, 2022).

This event is free and open to the public; the lecture will be immediately followed by a book signing at no cost. Boswell Book Company will have books available for purchase at the event (credit, debit, Apple and Google pay).

Supported in part with grant funding from the U.S. Department of Education’s Title VI National Resource Centers program and support from the Mellon Foundation, UWM Sociocultural Programming, and the Vilas Trust.

Free but registration requested at https://uwm.edu/clacs/reyna-grande-author-talk-beyond-borders-writing-as-activism-healing/ (clickable link below in the website section)

Questions may be directed to Monica VanBladel at vanblade@uwm.edu.


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