Though Grande’s father continually stressed the importance of his children obtaining an education, his drinking resulted in violence, abuse, and family chaos. Yet life on the other side of the border was not what Grande imagined: her father’s new girlfriend’s indifference to the three children becomes more than apparent. Eight years later her father returned and reluctantly agreed to take his children to the States. Grande deftly evokes the searing sense of heartache and confusion created by their parents’ departure. Raised in Mexico in brutal poverty during the 1980s, four-year-old Grande and her two siblings lived with their cruel grandmother after both parents departed for the U.S.
Award-winning novelist (Across a Hundred Mountains) Grande captivates and inspires in her memoir.
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