Cuando era Puertorriquena (When I Was Puerto Rican)
Cuando era Puertorriquena (When I Was Puerto Rican)
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Random House
Annotation: A memoir of a Latina's childhood in two worlds -- a Puerto Rican village and New York City.
 
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Catalog Number: #66344
Format: Perma-Bound Edition
Publisher: Random House
Copyright Date: 1994
Edition Date: c1994 Release Date: 10/18/94
Pages: 296 p.
ISBN: Publisher: 0-679-75677-9 Perma-Bound: 0-605-28435-0
ISBN 13: Publisher: 978-0-679-75677-4 Perma-Bound: 978-0-605-28435-7
Dewey: 974
LCCN: 94011467
Dimensions: 20 cm.
Language: Spanish
Word Count: 79,809
Reading Level: 6.8
Interest Level: 9+
Accelerated Reader: reading level: 6.0 / points: 13.0 / quiz: 20915SP / grade: Upper Grades

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.

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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.


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