The distance between us : a memoir

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Label

The distance between us : a memoir

Title remainder

a memoir

Statement of responsibility

Reyna Grande

Creator

• trueGrande, Reyna

Author

• trueGrande, Reyna

Subject

• trueLos Angeles, California -- Biography
• Grande, Reyna
• Grande, Reyna -- Childhood and youth
• trueGrowing up
• trueImmigrants -- California -- Biography
• trueImmigrants -- United States -- Biography
• Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Biography
• trueMexican American women -- Biography
• trueMexican American women authors -- Biography
• trueMexican Americans -- Biography
• Mexican Americans -- California | Los Angeles -- Biography
• trueMexico -- Emigration and immigration | Social aspects
• trueMexico -- Immigration and emigration | Social aspects
• trueUnited States -- Emigration and immigration | Social aspects
• trueUnited States -- Immigration and emigration | Social aspects
• trueWomen authors -- Biography
• Abused children -- United States -- Biography
• Autobiographies
• Biographies
• trueChild abuse victims -- United States -- Biography
• trueDysfunctional families

Genre

• Autobiographies
• trueBiographies
• trueBiography

Language

eng

Summary

When Reyna Grande's father leaves his wife and three children behind in a village in Mexico to make the dangerous trek across the border to the United States, he promises he will soon return from "El Otro Lado" (The Other Side) with enough money to build them a dream house where they can all live together. His promises become harder to believe as months turn into years. When he summons his wife to join him, Reyna and her siblings are deposited in the already overburdened household of their stern, unsmiling grandmother. The three siblings are forced to look out for themselves; in childish games they find a way to forget the pain of abandonment and learn to solve very adult problems. When their mother at last returns, the reunion sets the stage for a dramatic new chapter in Reyna's young life: her own journey to "El Otro Lado" to live with the man who has haunted her imagination for years, her long-absent father. -- Jacket, p. [2]

Tone

• trueMoving
• trueDisturbing
• trueBittersweet

Writing style

• trueLyrical
• trueCandid

Award

• School Library Journal Best Books: Best Adult Books 4 Teens, 2012.
• YALSA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults, 2017.

Biography type

autobiography

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

973/.046872

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

LC call number

E184.M5

LC item number

G665 2012

Literary form

non fiction

Target audience

adult