“And it’s a journey that, I think, has been dangerously and unfairly stigmatized by everyone up to the president of the United States, which I think is unconscionable. “It’s a classic memoir of coming to America, and its costs, and to some degree the upsides of it,” John Freeman, host of the club, said in an Alta Asks Live conversation. The California Book Club will discuss the book with Grande at its second virtual gathering, on November 19. Grande chronicles her experience of living without her parents-and eventually leaving Mexico for the U.S.-in her acclaimed 2012 memoir, The Distance Between Us. But it also hindered me because it left me emotionally scarred.” “I learned to be independent and self-reliant. “My experience of being left behind helped me because it made me strong,” Grande has said. Grande’s father had already left Mexico years earlier, hoping to make money for the family back home, and Grande knew, deep down, that she wouldn’t see either of them for a long time. “I won’t be gone for long.” Those were the words that Reyna Grande’s mother told her young daughter when leaving for the United States.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |