The Distance Between Us

The Distance Between Us
Reyna Grande
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Paperback
h211 x 137mm - 325pg
12 Mar 2013 US
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9781451661781
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"In this poignant memoir about her childhood in Mexico, Reyna Grande skillfully depicts another side of the immigrant experience--the hardships and heartbreaks of the children who are left behind. " --Sonia Nazario, Pulitzer Prize winner, and author of Enrique' s JourneyReyna Grande vividly brings to life her tumultuous early years in this "compelling . . . unvarnished, resonant" (BookPage) story of a childhood spent torn between two parents and two countries. As her parents make the dangerous trek across the Mexican border to "El Otro Lado" (The Other Side) in pursuit of the American dream, Reyna and her siblings are forced into the already overburdened household of their stern grandmother. When their mother at last returns, Reyna prepares for her own journey to "El Otro Lado" to live with the man who has haunted her imagination for years, her long-absent father. Funny, heartbreaking, and lyrical, The Distance Between Us poignantly captures the confusion and contradictions of childhood, reminding us that the joys and sorrows we experience are imprinted on the heart forever, calling out to us of those places we first called home. Also available in Spanish as La distancia entre nosotros.
One of the Best Adult Books 4 Teens 2012-- "School Library Journal" One the 15 Best Books of 2012-- "The Christian Science Monitor "The poignant yet triumphant tale Grande tells of her childhood andeventual illegal immigration puts a face on issues that stir vehement debate. "--Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street "Booklist" Award-winning novelist (Across a Hundred Mountains) Grande captivates and inspires in her memoir. 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 search of work. Grande deftly evokes the searing sense of heartache and confusion created by their parents' departure. Eight years later her father returned and reluctantly agreed to take his children to the States. 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. Though Grande' s father continually stressed the importance of his children obtaining an education, his drinking resulted in violence, abuse, and family chaos. 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. 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. Recounting her story without self-pity, she gracefully chronicles the painful results of a family shattered by repeated separations and traumas (Aug. ) --Sonia Nazario, Pulitzer Prize winner, and author of Enrique' s Journey "Publishers Weekly: Starred Review"
Reyna Grande is an award-winning author, motivational speaker, and writing teacher. As a 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 that has been adopted as the common read selection by over twenty schools and colleges and fourteen cities across the country. Her other books include the novels Across a Hundred Mountains, winner of a 2007 American Book Award, and Dancing with Butterflies, and The Distance Between Us, Young Reader' s Version. She lives in Woodland, CA with her husband and two children. Visit ReynaGrande. com.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781451661781
Published: 12 Mar 2013
Published In: United States
Imprint: Washington Square Press
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 211mm
Width: 137mm
Spine: 23mm
Weight: 295g
Pages: 325

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