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When Reyna Grande's daddy leaves his better half and three children behind in a village in Mexico to help make the dangerous trek across the border to america, he promises he will soon give back from "El Otro Lado" (The Other Side) with enough money to create them a dream house where they can all live alongside one another. His promises become harder to trust as months turn into years. When he summons his better half to join him, Reyna and her siblings are deposited in the already overburdened household of the stern, unsmiling grandmother. The three siblings are forced to look out for themselves; in childish games they find a way to forget the pain of abandonment and figure out how to solve very mature problems. When their mom at last dividends, the reunion packages the level for a remarkable new chapter in Reyna's young life: her own trip to "El Otro Lado" to live on with the person who has haunted her imagination for years, her long-absent daddy. In this remarkable memoir, award-winning writer Reyna Grande vividly brings alive her tumultuous early on years, capturing all the dilemma and contradictions of youth, especially one put in torn between two parents and two countries. Elated when she seems the glow of her father's love and endorsement, Reyna is aware that at any moment he might convert irritated or violent. Only in catalogs and music and her wealthy imaginary life does indeed she find solace, a momentary refuge from a global in which everywhere feels like "El Otro Lado".
