Listen To Award-Winning Author Reyna Grande Speak At Prince George's Library Branch Monday

PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, MD — Award-winning and best-selling author Reyna Grande will be at the Hyattsville branch of the library Monday, May 23, starting at 6:30 p.m. to chat about her new book "A Ballad of Love and Glory." The event will be hosted by book influencer Lupita Aquino and co-presented with the Prince George's County Office of Human Rights.

“Reyna Grande is one of the most revered contemporary American authors whose stories–both fiction and nonfiction–expand our understanding of Latin American and immigrant experience,” Nicholas Brown, PGCMLS’ chief operating officer for communication and outreach, said. “We are fortunate to have such an important literary voice visit Prince George’s County this spring.”

"A Ballad of Love and Glory" is a historical saga following a Mexican army nurse and an Irish soldier during the Mexican-American War.

Grande also is the author of the bestselling memoir "The Distance Between Us" (Atria, 2012). In that book she writes about her life before and after she arrived in the United States from Mexico as an undocumented child immigrant. Her other works include the novels "Across a Hundred Mountains" (Atria, 2006) and "Dancing with Butterflies" (Washington Square Press, 2009). She also has received an American Book Award, the El Premio Aztlán Literary Award and the International Latino Book Award. In 2012, she was a finalist for the prestigious National Book Critics Circle Awards and in 2015 she was honored with a Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature.

Registration for this event is recommended at pgcmls.info/events. The event also will be streamed live at youtube.com/PGCMLS.