His big dreams for his children are what gets them across the border, but his alcoholism and rage undermine all his hard work and good intentions. Her father isn’t the man she dreamed about all those years in Mexico. Filled with hope, she quickly realizes that life in America is far from perfect. as an undocumented immigrant to live with her father. The 10th Anniversary Edition of The Distance Between Us is now available, with a foreword by Sandra Cisneros and an introduction by the author!įrom award-winning author, Reyna Grande, an eye-opening memoir about life before and after illegally immigrating from Mexico to the United States.īorn in Mexico and raised by her grandparents after her parents left to find work in the U.S., at nine years old, Reyna enters the U.S.
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