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Barcode30053003839720
Home LocationParis-Bourbon
Call No814.6 GRAN
Title Migrant heart : essays about things I can't forget / Reyna Grande.
Author Grande, Reyna, author.
CollectionNEW: Adult 800-899
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 Paris-Bourbon30053003839720814.6 GRAN5/20/2026 Available

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Personal Name Grande, Reyna, author.
Title Statement Migrant heart : essays about things I can't forget / Reyna Grande.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice New York : Primero Sueño Press/Atria, [2026]
Physical Description xii, 237 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Content Type text txt rdacontent.
Media Type unmediated n rdamedia.
Carrier Type volume rdacarrier.
Bibliography, Etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-237).
Formatted Contents Note The queen of misery -- Juana la Mexicana -- Stitching my mother tongue -- As much as I'm willing -- Brown -- In-iguala-ble -- A flight to remember -- Horror story -- Dictionary of the hydra house -- Spare the chancla and the child -- Explaining myself -- La Jaula de Oro -- A writer's labor -- Into the borderlands --The storyteller's daughter -- The menopausal gardener's Almanac -- Butterfly wings and broken things.
Summary, Etc. Publisher Annotation: Reyna Grande has spent her career powerfully capturing the raw reality of life across borders. Her memoirs laid bare the trauma of family separation and celebrated her journey to become a college graduate and a writer. Now, in Migrant Heart, she offers her most probing and intimate work yet, turning her gaze inward to expose the scars left by migration and the ongoing work of stitching herself back together. Grande unflinchingly interrogates how living between two nations, two languages, and two identities has shaped the woman, mother, and writer she has become. In this collection, she confronts the deepest questions of the immigrant experience: How do we bridge the two worlds we live in? What does it cost you to lose your language? How do we turn pain into power? And when traumatic memories threaten to define us, how can telling our story help us heal while honoring our boundaries? Migrant Heart is a powerful testament to Grande’s role as a storyteller and cultural witness. It is an essential, moving read that continues to expand what we understand about the United States and the complex people who cross and live within its borders. It is a book for anyone seeking to understand the true price of belonging and the enduring power of finding one’s voice. 256pp., 75K.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term American essays 21st century.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Essay Authorship.
Index Term-Genre/Form Essays. lcgft.

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