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When I Was Puerto Rican: A Memoir
Contributor(s): Santiago, Esmeralda (Author)
ISBN: 0306814528     ISBN-13: 9780306814525
Publisher: Da Capo Press
OUR PRICE:   $16.19  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: February 2006
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Annotation: Magic, sexual tension, high comedy, and intense drama move through an enchanted yet harsh autobiography, in the story of a young girl who leaves rural Puerto Rico for New York's tenements and a chance for success.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures
- Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - Hispanic & Latino
- Biography & Autobiography | Women
Dewey: B
Lexile Measure: 1020
Series: Merloyd Lawrence Book
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.5" W x 8.2" (0.55 lbs) 288 pages
Themes:
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
- Ethnic Orientation - Hispanic
- Ethnic Orientation - Latino
- Locality - New York, N.Y.
- Geographic Orientation - New York
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 20915
Reading Level: 6.0   Interest Level: Upper Grades   Point Value: 13.0
 
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Publisher Description:
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.