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The real reason Mago wants to go to Mexico is to visit Acapulco with one of her work friends. Reyna accompanies Mago to the travel agent’s office, and Mago offers to buy Reyna a ticket to Mexico, as well. Reyna reluctantly accepts, not wanting to take Mago’s money but feeling suddenly homesick.
Reyna begs her father to reconsider, but he shuts himself in his bedroom and will not speak to her anymore. Reyna is miserable to have been abandoned yet again, and by the one person she thought would never leave her.
Four years after Reyna’s Papi left for the United States—and two years after her Mami left, too—construction at last begins on their family’s “dream house.”. Evila gives Papi a piece of her property, and workers begin building the house right next to Evila’s.
Quick answer: Both the house and the room that Reyna must now call home are pretty squalid. The house is overcrowded, and Reyna, Mago, and Carlos have to sleep in a tiny makeshift bed in a...
Nov 5, 2020 · One day in May 1985, nine-year-old Reyna Grande was called to her grandmother’s house and told to wait for a phone call. When she arrived, she found a man waiting there. “Nobody had to tell me who the man sitting on the couch was,” she writes in her memoir The Distance Between Us.
- Washington Square Press
1. What did Reyna love about her Abuela Chinta? 2. Who wanted the children to stay with Abuela Evila? Why? 3. How did Reyna know that Abuela Evila was home? 4. Why did Abuela Evila dislike Reyna’s mother? 5. How old was Abuela Evila in 1980 and what disabilities did she have? 6. How long did Reyna’s mother say she would stay in the United ...
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Don Bartolo comes outside, takes a coin from his pocket, and gives it back to Reyna, explaining that her parents only left “because they love [her] very much.” Reyna purchases the needle and walks home, willing herself to believe the shopkeeper’s words.
