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A dream called home a memoir by reyna grande
A dream called home a memoir by reyna grande






a dream called home a memoir by reyna grande a dream called home a memoir by reyna grande

She makes seemingly-disastrous choices, but bobs and floats through as buoyant as cork. , Reyna Grande's march towards her brilliant career astonishes me. A Dream Called Home is such a place., Reyna Grande is a fearless writer and a tireless warrior for the unrepresented and silenced. Writers like Reyna Grande give us more than a story, more than a book, more than just a slice of their experience or their imagination they give us a world in which to dwell, a place we can always return to when we need to make sense of the chaos that surrounds us. When the spark of a fierce intelligence touches a soul deep and true, an entire world is born. 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. 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 whose "power is growing with every book" (Luis Alberto Urrea, Pultizer Prize finalist) and a proud mother of two beautiful children who will never have to know the pain of poverty and neglect.

a dream called home a memoir by reyna grande a dream called home a memoir by reyna grande

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. Although her acceptance is a triumph, the actual experience of American college life is intimidating and unfamiliar for someone like Reyna, who is now estranged from her family and support system. Taking refuge in words, Reyna's love of reading and writing propels her to rise above until she achieves the impossible and is accepted to the University of California, Santa Cruz. As an immigrant in an unfamiliar country, with an indifferent mother and abusive father, Reyna had few resources at her disposal. "Here is a life story so unbelievable, it could only be true." -Sandra Cisneros, bestselling author of The House on Mango Street From bestselling author of the remarkable memoir The Distance Between Us 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.








A dream called home a memoir by reyna grande