why was the author called home ?
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By Raul A. Reyes
Growing up, acclaimed author Reyna Grande never dreamed that she might someday become a writer.
"No one ever asked me what I wanted to be,” said Grande, reflecting on her hardscrabble childhood. “I didn’t think I could become a writer. I hadn’t read any books by Latinas. It never really entered my mind that Latinas wrote books, so I never thought that I could write a book.”
Not only did Grande go on to write, she's won one the country's most prestigious literary awards and her books are part of common read curriculums throughout the country.
This month, Grande is out with her latest memoir, “A Dream Called Home,” the sequel to her earlier memoir, “The Distance Between Us.”
Grande was born in Iguala, Mexico, a place infamous as the site of the disappearance of 43 college students in 2014. She was two when her father left for the U.S., followed by her mother several years later. When her father came back for her, Grande entered the country illegally as a child, a harrowing experience she explored in her first memoir.
In "A Dream Called Home," she recounts her path to becoming the first person in her family to graduate college, become a published writer and find her American Dream.
The author of the novels “Dancing With Butterflies” and “Across A Hundred Mountains” — which won the 2007 National Book Award — Grande said that she wrote “A Dream Called Home” for both personal and professional reasons.
“I wanted to share what it’s like to grow up undocumented and to always feel caught between these two Mexican and American identities," said Grande. " I wanted people to have an insight into that experience and support immigration reform for our undocumented youth.