The Distance Between Us A Memoir

The distance between us is a 2012 memoir by reyna grande who is also the author of the novels across a hundred mountains and dancing with butterflies a finalist for the national books critics circle award and required reading in schools and colleges across the country the distance between us is followed by a dream called home which continues the story of grande s life.

The distance between us a memoir. A memoir summary study guide. Reyna is two when her father leaves the family in mexico and crosses the border into the united states hoping to earn enough money to build a home in mexico when he returns. Trapped in poverty in their native land moving into the united states by any means is a way to better one s life and the lives of one s children. 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.

I just finished the last book the distance between us by reyna grande. Her mexican parents came illegally to el otro lado the other side los angeles to find work and left her and her siblings with their abusive grandmother. The distance between us traces the author s experiences as an illegal child immigrant describing her father s violent alcoholism and her efforts to obtain a higher education. Grande s memoir of her childhood is powerful.

The distance between us. The distance between us. La bloga told in simple easy to read yet descriptive prose. Anyone who reads the distance between us will find the distance between their insularity and the humanity of immigrants is the two inches occupied in the memoir s 322 pages.