The Distance Between Us, Reyna Grande
The Distance Between Us, Reyna Grande
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The Distance Between Us
Young Readers Edition

Author: Reyna Grande

Narrator: Alejandra Reynoso

Unabridged: 7 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/19/2023

Synopsis

Award-winning author Reyna Grande shares her personal experience of crossing borders and cultures in this middle grade adaptation of her memoir, The Distance Between Us—“an important account of the many ways immigration impacts children” (Booklist, starred review).

When her parents make the dangerous and illegal trek across the Mexican border in pursuit of the American dream, Reyna and her siblings are forced to live with their stern grandmother, as they wait for their parents to build the foundation of a new life.

But when things don’t go quite as planned, Reyna finds herself preparing for her own journey to “El Otro Lado” to live with the man who has haunted her imagination for years: her long-absent father. Both funny and heartbreaking, The Distance Between Us sheds light on the immigrant experience beautifully capturing the struggle that Reyna and her siblings endured while trying to assimilate to a different culture, language, and family life in El Otro Lado (The Other Side).

About Reyna Grande

Reyna Grande is an award-winning author, motivational speaker, and writing teacher. As a young girl, she crossed the US–Mexico border to join her family in Los Angeles, a harrowing journey chronicled in The Distance Between Us, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. Her other books include the novels A Ballad of Love and Glory, Across a Hundred Mountains, and Dancing with Butterflies, the memoirs The Distance Between Us: Young Readers Edition, and A Dream Called Home, and the anthology Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings. She lives in Woodland, California, with her husband and two children. Visit ReynaGrande.com for more information.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Angela M on December 14, 2019

One of the things I’ve tried to do this year was to read all of the books by some of my favorite writers. Maggie O’Farrell is on that list and after reading this book, I’ve read all of her published books to date. I love that I’ve done that, but then I was sorry I didn’t have another to read by her......more

Goodreads review by Betsy on January 08, 2020

The Distance Between Us (originally published in 2004) is my sixth Maggie O'Farrell book, so I am a fan. However because I've read and gloried in her amazing skill in her later much more literary works, and because my introduction was her phenomenal memoir I Am, I Am, I Am which provided me knowledg......more

Goodreads review by Megan on January 11, 2015

Meh. A love story or a story of two sisters - I was never quite sure. Perhaps the problem with this book was that it tried to be both and became clogged and cloying from the effort. Stella runs away constantly and inexplicably (even given the 'terrible secret' that has 'haunted her since childhood')......more

Goodreads review by Rosie on September 07, 2023

O livro fez-me sentir como se estivesse a tentar montar um puzzle do avesso; ia encaixando as peças, uma a uma, com dificuldade, sem vislumbrar de todo a imagem na sua totalidade. Por falar nisso, faço um parêntesis para contar algo de que recordo com saudade: a minha filha mais velha, quando tinha......more

Goodreads review by Janelle on December 31, 2022

This is written in a dreamy style, from different characters points of view, set in different places and not in chronological order and it takes a while to sort out who the significant characters are. I quite enjoyed the writing style as it made it quite an impressionistic read. What didn’t work for......more

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