![]() Her father is already there, and alone without parents, Reyna and her brother and sister live with their strict and sometimes cruel paternal grandparents. Reyna Grande is four-years-old when her mother leaves her poverty-stricken town in Mexico to work in The United States. It tells the story, too, of children who rise above their poverty and abandonment and abuse to live out their dreams and contribute to the literary world. It tells the story of mothers who abandon their children and fathers who drink their worry away until they become violent. It tells the story of poverty that forces children out of school and into the fields. But it also tells many other stories and shows how they are all connected. ![]() ![]() ![]() Reyna Grande’s The Distance Between Us: A Memoir tells the story of illegal immigration. ![]()
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