Butterfly’s Wings

Reyna Grande’s immigrant history is grounded in loneliness, dislocation, a fractured birth family, psychological abuse, physical abuse, and racism. Its broad outline is sadly not that unusual, and it is more relevant than ever in the Trump era. But what Grande fashions from her experiences transcends the ordinary and expected. Migrant Heart, a collection of 18 essays and her seventh book, is about (to quote its subtitle) “things I can’t forget.” Chances are the reader will not be able to forget them either.