![]() ![]() They must live in fear of deportation, learn a new language, cower under their father’s abusive treatment, and make do, always on the financial edge. The author describes a life that, though different, is not easy on the other side of the border. Eventually, their father takes them to the U.S. As Grande’s parents’ marriage collapses, their mother returns only to leave again and again. Their parents have left with the dream of earning enough money to build a house back in Iguala meanwhile the children have their own dream of being reunited with their parents and once more being a family. ![]() Life in Iguala is one of grinding poverty and abusive treatment. Grande and her older siblings are left in their grandmother’s care. ![]() The book starts as her mother is leaving for the United States to join her husband, who left two years before. The grown-up Grande writes credibly in the voice of her younger self about growing up in Iguala de la Independencia in southern Mexico. It has now been adapted for a younger audience. This moving coming-of-age memoir by novelist Grande was a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist in 2012. ![]()
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