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Simon & Schuster
September 2012
On Sale: August 28, 2012
ISBN: 1451661800 EAN: 9781451661804 Kindle: B0061QB04W e-Book
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Non-Fiction Memoir
From an award-winning novelist and sought-after public
speaker, an eye-opening memoir about life before and after
illegally emigrating from Mexico to the United States.
After publishing two acclaimed and award-winning novels
about the Mexican immigrant experience and the families
forced to navigate its twists and turns, celebrated author
Reyna Grande reveals her own troubled and triumphant story
as an illegal immigrant in the heartfelt memoir The Distance
Between Us. Born in Mexico and raised by her grandparents after her
parents left to find work in the U.S., at nine years old,
Reyna enters the U.S. as an undocumented immigrant to live
with her father. Filled with hope, she quickly realizes that
life in America is far from perfect. Her father isn’t the
man she dreamed about all those years in Mexico. His big
dreams for his children are what gets them across the
border, but his alcoholism and rage undermine all his hard
work and good intentions. Reyna finds solace from a violent
home in books and writing, inspired by the Latina voices she
reads. After an explosive altercation, Reyna breaks away,
going on to become the first person in her family to obtain
a higher education, earning a college degree and then an
M.F.A. in Creative Writing. At a time when immigration politics are at a boiling point
in America, Reyna Grande is an important public voice for
Mexican Americans and immigrants of every origin. The
Distance Between Us has the power to change minds and
hearts.
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