Migrant Heart
Essays About Things I Can't Forget
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- 予約注文
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- リリース予定日：2026年5月12日
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- ¥1,900
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An ambitious memoir in essays by beloved bestselling author Reyna Grande that illuminates the hidden cost of the American Dream and the complex journey of healing that follows survival.
What is the true power of stories? Can they heal the jagged edges of a traumatic childhood? Is the cost of telling the story worth the price of the cure?
Reyna Grande has spent her career capturing the raw reality of life across borders. In this intricate and deeply intimate memoir-in-essays, the author of the landmark memoirs The Distance Between Us and A Dream Called Home again turns her gaze inward to explore the scars left by migration and the ongoing work of stitching herself back together.
With her signature blend of sophistication and raw honesty, Grande interrogates how living between two nations, two languages, and two identities has shaped the woman, mother, and writer she has become. Moving from the legacy of violence in her hometown of Iguala, Mexico, to a bittersweet family vacation in Europe spent reconciling her own impoverished past with her children’s world of abundance, she uncovers startling truths about the nature of survival.
Whether being racially profiled in the Arizona borderlands or finding unexpected wisdom from the slugs in her garden, Grande unflinchingly asks: How do we bridge the gap between who we were and who we have become? How do we turn pain into power? When memory threatens to define us, how can we use story to heal while still honoring our boundaries?
Migrant Heart is a powerful testament to Grande’s role as a storyteller and cultural witness. It expands our understanding of life in the United States and the complex people who cross and live within its borders. It is an essential read for the seekers, the dreamers, and anyone who believes in the enduring, transformative power of finding one’s voice.
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Mexican American novelist and memoirist Grande (Across a Hundred Mountains) explores the ripple effects of her experiences as an immigrant in this stirring collection. The subject matter is broad: "Stitching My Mother Tongue" probes Grande's feelings of shame at not being able to write in Spanish, and for raising her children in an English-speaking home; "Explaining Myself" details her decision, in the wake of the #MeToo movement and Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court confirmation hearings, to publicly discuss being raped by a friend. Other essays are darkly humorous, as when Grande recalls attending her sister-in-law's 2004 college graduation, where the commencement speaker, Donald Trump, told the audience that "if there is a concrete wall in front of you, go through it, go over it, go around. But get to the other side of that wall." Grande ends the volume with an account of her daughter tending to a deformed monarch butterfly, explaining how the species "has become a symbol for undocumented immigrants" because of its 3,000-mile migration through "storms, predators, and a vanishing food supply." Nimbly balancing hope and heartbreak, Grande's tender dispatches add up to an affecting self-portrait. Photos.
