When Reyna Grande was nine years old, she walked across the US-Mexico border in search of a home, desperate to be reunited with the parents who had left her behind years before for a better life. What she found was an indifferent mother, an abusive, alcoholic father, and a school system that belittled her heritage. With so few resources, Reyna finds refuge in words, and it is her love of reading and writing that propels her to rise above, until she...