Title of the Book: “The distance between us” Author:Ryna Grande Number of Pages: 323 Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Review: This book is emotional and real. Imagine being left behind by your parents because your country's economy is broken.Not having enough money to live life correctly and bathing in brown water. This is a reality for Reyna when she was a child. This book is through the authors eyes as a child in Igala Mexico.Her mother and father leaves her and her two siblings with her grandmother. They go to America where they can send money to their children and make a living. There is Carlos, Reyna and margo and all three of them live with both grandparents at some point of the book and struggle. They have different emotions towards their parents and feel out of place every where they live. The kids finally cross the border with their father but without their mother or their little sister. Now they have a stepmom in America and the second half of the book is about her life with her father in America. 

The authors writing method is a memoir and chapters of her life. Half of the book is in Mexico and the other is in America. Her tone in the book is childish, sad and lost. This helps you understand how her childhood was so hard. The most memorable part of the book for me is when her father pays a coyote to sneak them past the border and how harsh this was on all of the kids. This is also memorable because they are afraid of being sent back to Mexico by their father but also by la migra.

 I recommend this book highly for 16 years and up. This is because people can learn from this and connect to the hardships she faces. This is an eye opener for me and could potentially be for others as well.