A review by bobbo49
The Distance Between Us, by Reyna Grande

4.0

3.5 Grande's memoir starts with her early years in Mexico, with her parents' dreams of escaping poverty and building a home and a life. As that dream disintegrates along with their marriage, a new vision appears: life across the border, where her father has illegally started anew. The story follows Grande, her siblings, her parents and her relatives through the challenges, failures and successes of that new life, including the tortured relationship of the whole family with her alcoholic father. Not quite as well written as, for example, the work of Luis Alberto Urrea, but still a compelling picture of cross-border lives.