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Sandra Tarling on Reyna Grande’s The Distance Between Us:
Two years after Grande’s father left, unlike many other men who simply disappeared and often formed new families, he sent for his wife. She leaves Grande and her two siblings with their grandmother. At age four, she writes, she “knew […] that prayers didn’t work, because if they did, El Otro Lado wouldn’t be taking my mother away, too.”
Read it all here.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/fdfb67229d9911106d54345be533f42a/tumblr_mh3h5iiCGp1qieieio1_250.jpg)
Sandra Tarling on Reyna Grande’s The Distance Between Us:
Two years after Grande’s father left, unlike many other men who simply disappeared and often formed new families, he sent for his wife. She leaves Grande and her two siblings with their grandmother. At age four, she writes, she “knew […] that prayers didn’t work, because if they did, El Otro Lado wouldn’t be taking my mother away, too.”
Read it all here.
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