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This memoir follows Grande through her young adulthood, as she attends college away from Los Angeles and begins to find her way through adulthood. It's a moving memoir about being Latina and an immigrant and the ups and downs that come with the pride and challenges of being the first in her family to graduate from college. Grande talks about the relationships that came together and those that failed in her family, which continues the story she began in THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US. While stand alone, knowing Grande's story from the previous memoir will make this one land a bit harder.

Yareli Arizmendi performed the audiobook, and her voice and way of capturing Reyna's storytelling skills were fantastic and kept me absorbed.

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challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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5.0

This book perfectly captures the Latino Experience of a Mexican immigrant trying to find her place in the United States. Grande is honest about her journey which started with being a first-generation college student to becoming an author. While at the same time, she had to deal with her dysfunctional family, getting past her trauma and the burden of being a Mexican immigrant.

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dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

3.5

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emotional hopeful inspiring sad slow-paced

4.5

Muy triste, pero también poca romántica en partes. Buen escrito y muy fácil para las personas que no son hablantes nativos.

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