“Reading this book complicates and deepens our understanding of what immigration entails for all involved, and we can only be grateful for this writer who is willing to candidly reveal her grief, preserve an openness and acceptance of her parents, and graphically paint a picture of material and emotional poverty […]
El Paso Times Review of ‘The Distance Between Us’
“With honesty and grace, Grande drowns out the unflattering sound bytes that have plagued the undocumented community’s stories and writes a poignant memoir about finding safety and salvation in the artistic path. Hers is an insider’s tale of the hard-won American dream, sympathetic to the uninformed and sometimes detrimental choices […]
Poet Rigoberto Gonzalez on Reyna Grande
Petaluma High School librarian Connie Williams likened Grande’s visit to that of a rock star after the reaction just select chapters of the book got in Christina Lee’s English language development classes. “Ms. Lee said she was reading with the kids, they were so incredibly taken by the book […]
Author’s story hits home for many students
“Grande’s memoir The Distance Between Us is something akin to being the Angela’s Ashes of the modern Mexican immigrant experience. It is in many ways a ground-breaking addition to the literature of the Latino immigrant experience. The Distance Between Us is a book that deserves to be celebrated for its […]
Reyna Grande’s Acclaimed Memoir THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US has been ...
In the epilogue of her memoir, The Distance Between Us (just nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award), she reminds us “that studies show that 80 percent of Latin American children in U.S. schools have been separated from a parent in the process of migration.” In this work as […]
