Attention Book Groups

Grand Valley State University's Community Reading Project this year is The Distance Between Us: a Memoir by Reyna Grande.  The author tells about her early years in Mexico, living in poverty with her grandparents, while her parents live illegally in the United States, working to make money to improve their lives back home in Mexico.  Reyna eventually travels to the United States with her brother and sister and her father, who she soon finds out is an alcoholic.  She lives also with her father's new wife, and her father is abusive to the entire family.  Throughout the book the author's perseverance and strength shine through.

This book is available as a Book Group to Go bag for book groups.