The Distance Between Us, Reyna Grande
The Distance Between Us, Reyna Grande
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The Distance Between Us
A Memoir

Author: Reyna Grande

Narrator: Yareli Arizmendi

Unabridged: 11 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/14/2020

Synopsis

In this inspirational and unflinchingly honest memoir, acclaimed author Reyna Grande describes her childhood torn between the United States and Mexico, and shines a light on the experiences, fears, and hopes of those who choose to make the harrowing journey across the border.

Reyna 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.

About Reyna Grande

Reyna Grande is an award-winning author, motivational speaker, and writing teacher. As a young 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. Her other books include the novels A Ballad of Love and Glory, Across a Hundred Mountains, and Dancing with Butterflies, the memoirs The Distance Between Us: Young Readers Edition, and A Dream Called Home, and the anthology Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings. She lives in Woodland, California, with her husband and two children. Visit ReynaGrande.com for more information.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Hannah on March 17, 2025

On behalf of the author's childhood, I got so angry reading this. I kept thinking how her parents did not deserve their children or to be parents to anyone else. I had to go through the whole emotional journey from their young ones into their adult lives to get to a point where I could even see her......more

Goodreads review by Judithrosebooks on August 25, 2020

La autora logra transmitir la dureza de vivir en un país muy pobre, separada de sus padres que fueron a Estados Unidos para encontrar trabajo y ellos se quedaron con su abuela, una mujer muy dura que apenas los cuidaba. Su madre les abandonó por un hombre y su padre decidió llevarlos al Otro Lado, e......more

Goodreads review by Cynthia on February 05, 2020

This is Reyna Grande’s true account of her childhood spent in Mexico and, eventually, the USA. Many of her experiences were horrific yet she went on to be the first in her family to graduate from college and is now an award winning novelist and inspirational speaker. Grande captures the innocence and......more

Goodreads review by Sara on February 24, 2021

3/5 La distancia entre nosotros narra las experiencias de Reyna como niña que migra con su familia a Estados Unidos. Es una novela autobiográfica, y, aunque intuyo que ha maquillado un poco la realidad detrás de su historia, en ella no faltan ni las penurias, ni los mensajes de motivación. En est......more

Goodreads review by Liz on August 19, 2012

Award-winning novelist Reyna Grande's new memoir, "The Distance Between Us" is a book that has given me an eye-opening understanding of the plight of many immigrants from Mexico. 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......more

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