[PDF] When I Was Puerto Rican eBook

Author : Esmeralda Santiago
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 32,53 MB
Release : 2006-02-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0786736860

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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.

Author : Esmeralda Santiago
Publisher :
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 38,35 MB
Release : 2006-02-28
Category :
ISBN : 9781627652872

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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.

Author : Esmeralda Santiago
Publisher : VINTAGE ESPAÑOL
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 31,93 MB
Release : 2024-08-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

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La historia de Esmeralda Santiago comienza en la parte rural de Puerto Rico, donde sus padres y siete hermanos, en continuas luchas los unos con los otros, vivían una vida alborotada pero llena de amor y ternura. De niña, Esmeralda aprendió a apreciar cómo se come una guayaba, a distinguir la canción del coquí, a identificar los ingredientes en las morcillas y a ayudar a que el alma de un bebé muerto subiera al Cielo. Pero precisamente cuando Esmeralda parecía haberlo aprendido todo sobre su cultura, la llevaron a Nueva York, donde las reglas —y el idioma— eran no sólo diferentes, sino también desconcertantes. Cómo Esmeralda superó la adversidad, se ganó entrada a la Performing Arts High School y después continuó a Harvard, de donde se graduó con altos honores, es el relato de la tremenda trayectoria de una mujer verdaderamente extraordinaria

Author : Santiago Esmeralda
Publisher :
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 23,54 MB
Release : 2014-07-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781632451132

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"Riveting."--Booklist, starred review

Author : Esmeralda Santiago
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 14,65 MB
Release : 2012-06-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0306821117

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Following the enchanting story recounted in When I Was Puerto Rican of the author’s emergence from the barrios of Brooklyn to the prestigious Performing Arts High School in Manhattan, Esmeralda Santiago delivers the tale of her young adulthood, where she continually strives to find a balance between becoming American and staying Puerto Rican. While translating for her mother Mami at the welfare office in the morning, starring as Cleopatra at New York’s prestigious Performing Arts High School in the afternoons, and dancing salsa all night, she begins to defy her mother’s protective rules, only to find that independence brings new dangers and dilemmas.

Author : Novel Units
Publisher : Novel Units, Incorporated
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 29,85 MB
Release : 2019-07-15
Category : Language arts (Secondary)
ISBN : 9781581309621

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