A Dream Called Home

From the best-selling writer Reina Grande - his excellent memoirs "Distance between us" has become mandatory for schools across the country - an exciting explanation of a woman trying to find her place in the United States, As the first generation of Latin college students, and aspiration writers. Let's make a fearless new life for your family

When Reyna Grande was 9 years old, she found her home across the border between America and Mexico and was eager to reunite with her parents many years ago to have a better life in the city of angels. She discovered an indifferent mother, a father of abusive alcoholism, and a school system that exacerbates her heritage.

Because there is not much resources available for her freedom, Reina has found a shelter in her writing. Because I love reading and writing, I noticed impossibility and she began to surpass her until she was accepted by the University of California at Santa Cruz. .

Her acceptance is victory, but the actual experience of college life in the United States is the fear and stranger for people like Reina who are now alienated from her family and support system. Once again, she found consolation in her words and insisted on her vision of becoming a writer. She was only to discover that she did not know anything about the need to create a career from her dream.

Through all of these, Reina is determined to make impossible things from undocumented immigrants to "author's furious, clever, flash" (Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild). Talk with millions of immigrants (author of Mango Street House, Sandra Cisneros), a proud mother with two beautiful children who never know the pain of poverty and negligence

Reyna's exquisite, sincere essay, A Dream Called Home, shows how Reyna dared to build one thing that he dared to pursue his dreams.

"The dream of a house is a moving, well-written portrait depicting a journey a young woman encounters in the best life, Reina Grande is a national treasure (an award-winning author of the" Tango God " , Carolina De Robertis) Reyna Grande is an award-winning writer, an impressive speaker and a writing teacher. As a girl, she crossed the border between America and Mexico and traveled with her family in Los Angeles a tragic journey. This is recorded in "Distance Between Us" which is the finalist of the National Book Critics Circle Awards. It is used in more than 20 schools and universities in more than 14 cities across the country. Her other books include the novel "Crossing Baishan", the 2007 American Book Award winners, "Dance with the Butterfly", "The Distance between Us" and "Youth Reader Edition". She lives in Woodland, California with her husband and two children.

The next book of Grand "Dream House" will be published on October 2. The sequel to "The Distance Between Us" starts a new book from her last book - she arrives at the University of California at Santa Cruz, gets a college degree and becomes the first person of the family to become a writer I will start her mission.

The protagonists (Candy, Rennie, George, Crook) share common dreams. Their dreams will be centered around places where families and people even call friends and family. Candy 's dream belongs to George and Lenny' s farm and is useful. Croix dreams of having a company that does not look down on him because he is a black man. George wants a house that he controls and can work on his own land instead of others. Lenny wants only "easy to become a rabbit". Of course, this dream has not been realized, Steinbeck seems to have designed his dark world to eliminate the possibility of escape from loneliness and empty communication (whether drinking, prostitution, gambling, etc.). Economic difficulties and confusion