the distance between us a memoir by reyna grande

Recounting her story without self-pity, she gracefully chronicles the painful results of a family shattered by repeated separations and traumas (Aug. Tracing the complex and tattered relationships binding the family together, especially the bond she shared with her older sister, the author intimately probes her family’s history for clues to its disintegration. Surrounded by family turmoil, Grande discovered a love of writing and found solace in library books, and she eventually graduated from high school and went on to become the first person in her family to graduate from college.

Though Grande’s father continually stressed the importance of his children obtaining an education, his drinking resulted in violence, abuse, and family chaos. Yet life on the other side of the border was not what Grande imagined: her father’s new girlfriend’s indifference to the three children becomes more than apparent. Eight years later her father returned and reluctantly agreed to take his children to the States. Grande deftly evokes the searing sense of heartache and confusion created by their parents’ departure. Mago, Carlos, Reyna and their new sister, Betty, all live a rough life without any real type of love from their parents so they have to rely on each other for guidance and support. Raised in Mexico in brutal poverty during the 1980s, four-year-old Grande and her two siblings lived with their cruel grandmother after both parents departed for the U.S. In the memoir, The Distance Between Us, by Reyna Grande, Reyna explains how her and her three siblings managed to grow up without any parents. The boy didn't say anything to me as we made our. Award-winning novelist (Across a Hundred Mountains) Grande captivates and inspires in her memoir. The receptionist said something to him and motioned for me to follow him.

The distance between us a memoir by reyna grande