What would you do for a better life? Where would you go? Who would you leave behind? And what does "better" mean, anyway?

Reyna Grande poses these questions with great poise and power in her debut novel, Across a Hundred Mountains. This week, we talk border crossings, panda bears, Chicana feminism, and the ingenuity of Days of Our Lives.

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