![]() ![]() Her mother would send her to work at a families friend house and she for the first time saw an American, which prompted her to wanting to live with her father in the U.S. At first she had everything a kid could want since her dad would send money but after a while it stopped and it caused her to be more confused. As a kid she was proud to be Mexican and even bragged about how her dad lived up north which resulted her getting into fights. The most interesting theme of the memoir was how Grande tried to find her identity growing up. Grande’s life in the U.S was no more different than it was in Mexico except no she faced discrimination for being Mexican and undocumented. As she got older, her father returned and took her and her sister to the United States. While living in Mexico, she lived an extreme poverty having to share her food with her entire family. Her father had left for the United States when she was about 4 years old and had never returned. Reyna for the majority of her childhood lived in a little village in Mexico with her mother and two siblings. ![]() ![]() ![]() Reyna tells the story of her life and the struggles she faced growing up in the 70s and 80s. The Distance Between Us is a memoir written by Reyna Grande. ![]()
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