![]() ![]() ![]() Her memoir provides readers an intimate portrait of the costs of separation to both parent and child.īecause Grande is so young when her parents leave for the U.S. find themselves, at least temporarily, as orphans in a new land. Originally published in 2012, her story of being separated from her parents in the process is not unique eighty percent of Latin American children entering the U.S. ![]() In The Distance Between Us (Washington Square Press, 2013), award-winning novelist ReynaGrande chronicles her early life in Mexico, as well as her experience migrating to the United States. For the next five years she, her sister Mago and her brother Carlos are shuffled between grandmothers and considered orphans, because, when a father or mother leaves Mexico for the United States, they very seldom return. When her mother follows, promising to return in one year, she is four. When Reyna’s father leaves the family to go the United States she is two. Copies of the book will be available for sale and to be signed by the author. 25, 2014 at 4 pm at the Salt Lake City Public Library, Auditorium, 210 East 400 South, downtown. Author Reyna Grande will appear as part of the six-week-long Utah Humanities Book Festival Oct. ![]()
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