The Distance Between Us : A Memoir (Paperback)

from BALE

A powerful novel that describes the immigrant experience - from poverty, dreams of the "other land" and lack of opportunity to opportunity and success. These factors combined with parental abuse, abandonment and alcoholism render the struggle even more difficult. Considering our current political...

from jepeters333

When Reyna Grande's father leaves his wife and three children behind in a village in Mexico to make the dangerous trek across the border to the United States, he promises he will soon return from “El Otro Lado” (The Other Side) with enough money to build them a dream house where they can all live...

from Dreesie

Grande and her 2 older siblings were left in Mexico, to be raised by grandparents, when her parents illegally immigrated to LA to work. She discusses the poverty, hunger, worms, etc, of life in rural Guerrero--as well as the lives of the children left behind and the often frustrated grandparents ...

from Sovranty

Reyna Grande intimately shares with her audience that her childhood and adolescence was a train wreck. From the earliest memories through to adulthood, Reyna struggled emotionally as her family was torn apart voluntarily again and again. Children seek stability, and the only thing that seemed to ...

from knittingmomof3

An excellent memoir which offers the reader a fresh perspective on immigration.