"Where do I belong? Do I belong here, do I belong there, do I belong anywhere??"
On October 16, I attended a book talk with novelist Reyna Grande to discuss her new book The Distance Between Us. I attended without much knowledge about the actual novel, however after hearing some of the experiences behind her memoir I became quite interested. She began by discussing her experience living with her grandmother after her mother and father immigrated into the U.S. looking for work. She went into detail discussing her youth and asking herself every night whether her parents had already forgotten her and started a new family in the US. However, at one point Reyna joined her family in the US and lived with her father and her step mother. During this point she recalled her father beating her step mother to the point that he sent her to the hospital. Reyna decided that she could not live with them anymore and moved in with her English teacher from PCC. This is how she came to write novels, she said that in writing she was able to relive these experiences without fully immersing herself in the sorrow that she once experienced.
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