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A ballad of love and glory a novel

"A Long Petal of the Sea meets Luis Alberto Urrea's The House of Broken Angels in this epic historical romance about a Mexican woman and an Irish-American soldier who fall in love in the thick of the Mexican-American War"--

Main Author: Grande, Reyna (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Atria Books, 2022.
Edition: First Atria books hardcover edition.
Subjects:
Mexican War, 1846-1848 > Fiction.
Women healers > Fiction.
Nurses > Fiction.
Irish Americans > Fiction.
Soldiers > Fiction.
Man-woman relationships > Fiction.
Love stories.
War fiction.
Historical fiction.
Romance fiction.
Summary: "A Long Petal of the Sea meets Luis Alberto Urrea's The House of Broken Angels in this epic historical romance about a Mexican woman and an Irish-American soldier who fall in love in the thick of the Mexican-American War"--
Physical Description: 370 pages : map ; 24 cm
ISBN: 9781982165260
198216526X
Author Notes: Reyna Grande is an award-winning author, motivational speaker, and writing teacher. As a young girl, she crossed the US-Mexico border to join her family in Los Angeles, a harrowing journey chronicled in The Distance Between Us , a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. Her other books include the novels A Ballad of Love and Glory , Across a Hundred Mountains , and Dancing with Butterflies , the memoirs The Distance Between Us: Young Readers Edition , and A Dream Called Home , and the anthology Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration , Survival, and New Beginnings . She lives in Woodland, California, with her husband and two children. Visit ReynaGrande.com for more information.

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