A review by givnuapeacesign
The Distance Between Us: Young Readers Edition by Reyna Grande

5.0

If this is the Young Reader's Edition, I cannot imagine the Adult edition. At times I was so furious with the adults in Reyna Grande's life, I wanted to hit something and throw the book. I just could not understand why her mother of all people could repeatedly abandon her children. As a midwestern white woman, my twisted mind stereotypes the Mexican father as coming to the U.S., working, sending money home, and eventually bringing the family along with him to the U.S. Yet the Grande story is so far from that truth. Abuse, poverty, cruelty over three generations was prevalent. So many casualties. Too many details to really tell any. Taken together, this tragic story, cut me to the core. Reyna eventually did overcome the trauma. Yet it was so brutal getting there, In honestly don't know how she made it..