Juana now feels heartbroken down by her children (Grande 76). She had promised that she would be back in a year however, Juana returned after several years, having given birth to a fourth child. Juana feels like she had broken the promise she made to her children when she left for the United States. The emotional distance felt by Reyna and her siblings is not only one-sided, Juana also feels it. In essence, even with their mother having returned, Reyna and her siblings have become emotionally distant from Juana. She adds that “The woman standing there wasn’t the same woman who had left.” (Grande 123). She says, “I knew why the emptiness and the yearning were still there” (Grande 123). Reyna laments that emptiness and the yearning are still there. Even after reuniting with her children, Juan does not seem to be the same she has lost touch with her children, which fuels emotional distance. Reyna’s mother, Juan, whom they refer to as Mami, comes back home to her children, and they physically reunite after a disagreement with their father, who had threatened to shoot her after she decided to return to Mexico with the fourth child, Betty, who is an American citizen. Though the distance is geographical, the progression of the story reveals a more emotional distance than physical. Reyna and her siblings are isolated from their parents, which propels the emotional torture, particularly because of infrequent communications with their mother and father.
The consequence is a physical distance, which creates an emotional distance between the children and their parents. The United States is believed to be a land of opportunity by many Mexicans (Muñoz et al.
In the first section of the Memoir, the story begins when Reyna and her other siblings, Carlos and Mago, are separated from their parents, who have traveled to the United States in search of greener pasture.
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