UC Santa Cruz alumna Reyna Grande will be in conversation with Micah Perks and Sylvanna Falcón about her highly-anticipated new novel, A Ballad of Love and Glory, at an in-person event at the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn.

The event is in-person only; no streaming option is available at this time, and the event will not be recorded.

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.

Tickets:

A limited number of complimentary tickets will be available for UCSC students, please use this link:

Tickets for UCSC students

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General Tickets

Free event parking will be available on campus. The book signing will take place at the end of the event and will be outdoors (weather permitting).

Tickets are final sale and do not qualify for Bookshop Reader’s Club Credit.

This event is co-sponsored by Bookshop Santa Cruz, The Research Center for the Americas and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.