Book HackThe Distance Between UsBy Reyna Grande
In a Nutshell
In this 2012 memoir, award-winning author Reyna Grande recounts her difficult and formative experiences as a child immigrant who travels from Mexico to the United States.
Favorite Quote
Papi said we’d broken the law by coming to the U.S., but back then I didn’t understand much about laws. All I could think of was why there would be a law that would prevent children from being with their father. That was the only reason I’d come to this country, after all.
Reyna Grande
Introduction
Immigrating to a new country is difficult for anyone.
But immigration is a particularly formative and often painful experience for children.
Reyna Grande is an award-winning author who has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Oprah's Book Club, and currently teaches creative writing at UCLA.
In this memoir, Grande recounts her childhood experience of illegally crossing the border to the United States and assimilating to a new culture, shedding light on the many ways in which immigration impacts children.
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