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  Title

  A dream called home : a memoir First Atria Books hardcover edition.

  Author

  Grande, Reyna.  

  Publisher:

  Atria Books,

  Pub date:

  2018.

  Pages:

  327 pages :

  ISBN:

  9781501171420

  Item info:

  1 copy available at Whittwood Branch Library.
  

  • 9781501171420
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    Whittwood Branch Library	Copies	Material	Location
    973.046872 GRA	1	Adult Non-Fiction Book	Adult Non-Fiction

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  A dream called home : a memoir First Atria Books hardcover edition.
  Grande, Reyna.
  

  ISBN:

  9781501171420 (hardcover)

  ISBN:

  1501171429 (hardcover)

  Personal Author:

  Grande, Reyna.

  Title:

  A dream called home : a memoir / Reyna Grande.

  Edition:

  First Atria Books hardcover edition.

  Publication info:

  New York : Atria Books, 2018.

  264:

  ©2018

  Physical description:

  327 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

  Content type:

  text

  Media type:

  unmediated

  Carrier type:

  volume

  Summary:

  From bestselling author Reyna Grande--whose remarkable memoir The Distance Between Us has become required reading in schools across the country comes an inspiring account of one woman's quest to find her place in America as a first-generation Latina university student and aspiring writer determined to build a new life for her family one fearless word at a time. When Reyna Grande was nine years old, she walked across the US-Mexico border in search of a home, desperate to be reunited with the parents who had left her behind years before for a better life in the City of Angels. What she found instead was an indifferent mother, an abusive, alcoholic father, and a school system that belittled her heritage. With so few resources at her disposal, Reyna finds refuge in words, and it is her love of reading and writing that propels her to rise above until she achieves the impossible and is accepted to the University of California, Santa Cruz. Although her acceptance is a triumph, the actual experience of American college life is intimidating and unfamiliar for someone like Reyna, who is now once again estranged from her family and support system. Again, she finds solace in words, holding fast to her vision of becoming a writer, only to discover she knows nothing about what it takes to make a career out of a dream. Through it all, Reyna is determined to make the impossible possible, going from undocumented immigrant of little means to "a fierce, smart, shimmering light of a writer" (Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild ); a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist "speak[ing] for millions of immigrants whose voices have gone unheard" (Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street ); and a proud mother of two beautiful children who will never have to know the pain of poverty and neglect. Told in Reyna's exquisite, heartfelt prose, A Dream Called Home demonstrates how, by daring to pursue her dreams, Reyna was able to build the one thing she had always longed for: a home that would endure.

  Held by:

  WHITTWOOD

  Personal subject:

  Grande, Reyna.

  Corporate subject:

  University of California, Santa Cruz Students Biography.

  Corporate subject:

  University of California, Santa Cruz Students 20th century.

  Subject term:

  Mexican Americans California Biography.

  Subject term:

  Mexican American women authors Biography.

  Subject term:

  Teachers California Los Angeles Biography.

  Subject term:

  Mexican Americans California Social conditions 20th century.

  Geographic term:

  Iguala de la Independencia (Mexico) Biography.

  Geographic term:

  Mexico Emigration and immigration Social aspects.

  Geographic term:

  United States Emigration and immigration Social aspects.