Reyna Grande Reflection

I greatly enjoyed Reyna Grande's presentation on her growth as a writer. I wasn't particularly informed on her work before I attended the event, but with the little prior knowledge I entered the event with, I could definitely appreciate the nature of her work. Grande is a Mexican writer who has proverbially "gained her wings" as a writer and writes primarily to reveal the complexities surrounding immigration. The importance of her work cannot be stated enough in this day and age. Speaking from the Mexican perspective to help shed some light on the complexities of immigration at a young age should do wonders to better the understanding of immigration of those that read her work. I myself can speak to the complexities of immigration: my parents were immigrants to the United States who struggled in its radically different environment. I think of my mother when I hear the story of Reyna Grande: she succeeded in an engineer in a male-dominated industry like Reyna, who found her voice as a Hispanic writer in a sea of white voices. The commonalities that Reyna and my mother, a Chinese immigrant share are not unique. Reyna's work should help speak to issues shared on a global scale, and have to be told to start the process of revealing those stories that have not been told to date.