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When I Was Puerto Rican

By Esmeralda Santiago

When I Was Puerto Rican Social Sciences

When I Was Puerto Rican

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One of "The Best Memoirs of a Generation" (Oprah's Book Club): a young woman's journey from the mango groves and barrios of Puerto Rico to Brooklyn, and eventually on to Harvard In a childhood full of tropical beauty and domestic strife, poverty and tenderness, Esmeralda Santiago learned the proper way to eat a guava, the sound of tree frogs, the taste of morcilla, and the formula for ushering a dead baby's soul to heaven. But when her mother, Mami, a force of nature, takes off to New York with her seven, soon to be eleven children, Esmeralda, the oldest, must learn new rules, a new language, and eventually a new identity. In the first of her three acclaimed memoirs, Esmeralda brilliantly recreates her tremendous journey from the idyllic landscape and tumultuous family life of her earliest years, to translating for her mother at the welfare office, and to high honors at Harvard.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
288
Release Date:
2006-02-28
Publication Date:
2006-02-28
Publisher:
Grand Central Publishing
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0306814528
ISBN13:
9780306814525
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
250 g
Height:
141 cm
Width:
208 cm
Thickness:
22 cm
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