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Title details for When I Was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago - Available

When I Was Puerto Rican

by Esmeralda Santiago
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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.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Merloyd Lawrence

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    February 28, 2006

  • Formats

    • Kindle Book

      • ISBN: 9780306902536

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9780786736867

    • EPUB ebook

      • ISBN: 9780786736867
      • File size: 1399 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Levels

    • ATOS Level: 6
    • Lexile® Measure: 1020
    • Interest Level: 9-12(UG)
    • Text Difficulty: 4-5

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Formats

  • Kindle Book
  • OverDrive Read
  • EPUB ebook

subjects

Languages

  • English

Levels

  • ATOS Level:6
  • Lexile® Measure:1020
  • Interest Level:9-12(UG)
  • Text Difficulty:4-5