The Distance Between Us: A Memoir

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“On this poignant memoir about her childhood in Mexico, Reyna Grande skillfully depicts some other side of the immigrant experience—the hardships and heartbreaks of the children who are left at the back of.” —Sonia Nazario, Pulitzer Prize winner, and creator of Enrique’s Journey

Reyna Grande vividly brings to life her tumultuous early years On this “compelling . . . unvarnished, resonant” (BookPage) story of a childhood spent torn between two parents and two countries. As her parents make the dangerous trek around 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 in 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 printed on the heart perpetually, calling out to us of those places we first referred to as home.

Also to be had in Spanish as La distancia entre nosotros.

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