Her last one, The Distance Between Us, was a memoir about her life before and after illegally immigrating from Mexico to the United States. “And now I am paying back everything this country has given me, and I will continue to do so until the day I die.” Grande is currently the author of three critically acclaimed books. “When I got my green card I felt the whole world open up to me,” she added. at a time when something wonderful happened-the amnesty of 1986, the Immigration Reform and Control Act, which allowed almost 3 million people, including both my parents, to legalize their status.” “I also spent years worrying about my legal status, fearing deportation. as one myself,” Grande told me in a 2012 interview. “I identify so much with young undocumented child immigrants because I came to the U.S. For her senior project in UCSC's Literature Department, she even wrote the first 80 pages of her debut novel, Across a Hundred Mountains. Overcoming the language barrier and her status as an undocumented immigrant in the United States, Grande made the most of her new home, eventually earning a bachelor's degree in creative writing/film & video from UC Santa Cruz in 1999. In 1985, when she was almost 10, Grande crossed the border as an undocumented immigrant. Her mother followed two years later, leaving Grande behind in Mexico. She was only two when her father left Mexico to look for work in the U.S. citizen, Grande grew up in extreme poverty in rural Mexico. He was a maintenance worker with a third-grade education, and the only way to give his children a better future was to break the law.” Now a U.S. Trump’s mother, my father was an economic migrant, too poor to qualify for even the most basic visa requirements. “No parent wants to uproot and risk his or her child’s life. “While she is passing judgment on immigrant parents like my father, her father’s administration is making it harder for families to seek legal entry into the United States by tightening the standards for asylum and legal migration,” Grande added. Trump’s father was separating thousands of families through his ‘zero tolerance’ policy, I thought about my own father and the choice he had to make: leave me behind in Mexico or put my life at risk by bringing me to America for a chance at a better future. It was not a decision he made lightly,” said Grande in the New York Times piece. The piece was a response to a statement by Ivanka Trump that appeared to blame immigrant parents for the separation of families this summer at the United States-Mexico border. Retrieved September 26, 2022.Earlier this week, the New York Times published an op-ed by UC Santa Cruz alumna Reyna Grande titled The Impossible Choice My Father Had to Make. Publishers Weekly list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 2020s.Rush Limbaugh with Kathryn Adams Limbaugh and David Limbaughįriends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing Nikole Hannah-Jones and The New York Times Magazine The following list ranks the number-one best-selling nonfiction books, in the combined print and e-books category. Colleen Hoover was also the most frequent weekly best-selling author with 19 weeks at the top of the list. The following list ranks the number-one best-selling fiction books, in the combined print and e-books category.įor the third year, the most frequent weekly best seller of the year was Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens with 12 weeks at the top of the list, followed closely by It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover with 11 weeks at the top of the list. Both the fiction and nonfiction lists are further split into multiple lists. The lists are split in three genres-fiction, nonfiction and children's books. The American daily newspaper The New York Times publishes multiple weekly lists ranking the best-selling books in the United States.
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