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The Distance Between Us: Young Readers Edition Audiobook
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In this inspirational and unflinchingly honest memoir, acclaimed author Reyna Grande describes her childhood torn between the United States and Mexico, and shines a light on the experiences, fears, and hopes of those who choose to make the harrowing journey across the border.
Reyna Grande vividly brings to life her tumultuous early years in this “compelling...unvarnished, resonant” (BookPage) story of a childhood spent torn between two parents and two countries. As her parents make the dangerous trek across the Mexican border to “El Otro Lado” (The Other Side) in pursuit of the American dream, Reyna and her siblings are forced into the already overburdened household of their stern grandmother. When their mother at last returns, Reyna prepares for her own journey to “El Otro Lado” to live with the man who has haunted her imagination for years, her long-absent father.
Funny, heartbreaking, and lyrical, The Distance Between Us poignantly captures the confusion and contradictions of childhood, reminding us that the joys and sorrows we experience are imprinted on the heart forever, calling out to us of those places we first called home.
Also available in Spanish as La distancia entre nosotros.
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"The story is alright but the narration is comically bad. I can't even listen to it without laughing at the atrocious voice impersonations. It took me a while to figure out if the narration was actually a computerized reading. Just read the book, this narration is pathetic."
— Riley Kilmartin Schmidt (5 out of 5 stars)
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“Grande is a fierce, smart, shimmering light of a writer with an important story to tell.”
— Cheryl Strayed, #1 New York TImes bestselling author -
“Powerful, harrowing.”
— San Antonio Express News -
Eloquent, honest storytelling. This book would be fabulous required reading for college freshmen or, even better, for freshman members of Congress.”
— Washington Independent Review of Books -
“Grande captivates and inspires in her memoir…Recounting her story without self-pity, she gracefully chronicles the painful results of a family shattered by repeated separations and traumas.”
— Publishers Weekly (starred review) -
“In this poignant memoir about her childhood in Mexico, Reyna Grande skillfully depicts another side of the immigrant experience—the hardships and heartbreaks of the children who are left behind. Through her brutally honest firsthand account of growing up in Mexico without her parents, Grande sheds light on the often overlooked consequence of immigration—the disintegration of a family.”
— Sonia Nazario, Pulitzer Prize–winning author
Awards
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An Oprah Magazine Pick of Books about Immigration That Capture the Experience
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A Christian Science Monitor Book of the Year
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A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year for Adults & Teens
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Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
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Winner of the International Latino Book Award
The Distance Between Us Listener Reviews
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" A narrator who cannot pronounce simple Spanish words such as colonia and Mira turns this important book into a a worthless cartoon. I will try to get my money back. "
— Jose, 5/18/2018
About Reyna Grande
Reyna Grande is an award-winning author, motivational speaker, and writing teacher. As a young girl, she crossed the US–Mexico border to join her family in Los Angeles, a harrowing journey chronicled in The Distance between Us, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. Visit ReynaGrande.com for more information.