Reflection Of Reyna Grande's 'The Distance Between Us'

The Distance Between Us Reflection In the book Distance Between Us by Reyna Grande, she takes us on the journey of her life. The book deals with issues many immigrant families deal with on a daily basis. Reyna explores the difficulties that come with being a child of an immigrant, parents not being emotionally or physically present, and child abuse. I will be speaking about my feelings and thoughts about how this book affected me and what I enjoyed about it. As soon as I finished the book I felt really emotional and my eyes were watery as I explained the story to my sister. I did not know how to explain my feelings, because most of the problems Reyna discussed I had not personally gone through. My parents are both from Mexico and they both came to the other side at really young ages. My dad came to the United States at the age of fourteen with no family or large amount of money. My mom came to the United States at the age of nineteen and she does not really talk about her experience of getting here. Nor does she talk about what she did when she finally got to the U.S. I have never asked her about her own experience, but from prior experience about asking her about other parts of her life I know she will not be open about it. After finishing the book I automatically started to wonder who and what my parents left behind in Mexico. Obviously they left their …show more content…
Reyna’s mentor showed her that there were books out there by authors that could relate to her. Reyna learned that there were books that had to do with her culture that she can relate to like The House on Mango Street. I have never read this book, but after hearing it about it struck an interest in me to look into more Latino/a writers. It would be great for me to read more books about my culture that I can learn from. Reyna also talked about a very important issue in the book that really made me emotional as I read