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Beyond Borders: Writing as Activism and Healing

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

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). Boswell Book Company will have books available for purchase at the event. 

Sponsored by Center for Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies, with the Center for International Education, College of Letters & Science, Department of English, Student Involvement, and the Vilas Trust 

Venue

UWM Library
2311 E Hartford Ave
Milwaukee, WI 53211 United States
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