325 pgs.
Finished 7/5/20
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My rating: 4.5
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My comments: This story opened my eyes a bit. A memoir, written by a self named "Mexican American" woman, who tells the story of being raised in extreme poverty in Mexico by two different sets of grandparents while her own parents were in Los Angeles. The first half of the book tells intimate details about growing up in the kind of poverty that most Americans can't even imagine with one set of grandparents who not only didn't love them, but resented them. Thankfully, the other grandmother with whom she lived for half her first seven years was very loving but lived in a one-room bamboo shack with a tin roof. Reyna, three of her siblings, and sometimes her mother lived there with her grandmother. No income. Very little food. Only the river in which to bathe. Then crossing the border to LA to live with the father they've never really known, an alcoholic who is strict and aggressive with his fists and belt. How do you come out of this upbringing with love and morality still in your cells? Reyne Grande does. This is an amazing story of courage and resilience and intelligence. I must read at least one of her novels.
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