The literary career of writer Reyna Grande has been defined by her trauma. 50 years and after two decades since her first publication, each new book, fictional or non-fiction, has been traversed by her experiences as a Mexican immigrant who at the age of nine changed poverty in Iguala, Guerrero, in her native Mexico, to a difficult adolescence of assimilation in California, where she returned to a broken family, marked by alcoholism and abuse of…
The literary career of writer Reyna Grande has been defined by her trauma. 50 years and after two decades since her first publication, each new book, fictional or non-fiction, has been traversed by her experiences as a Mexican immigrant who at the age of nine changed poverty in Iguala, Guerrero, in her native Mexico, to a difficult adolescence of assimilation in California, where she returned to a broken family, marked by alcoholism and abuse of…