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When I was Puerto Rican, [a memoir], Esmeralda Santiago

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When I was Puerto Rican, [a memoir], Esmeralda Santiago

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

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Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

When I was Puerto Rican

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electronic resource eBook

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Esmeralda Santiago

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[a memoir]

Summary

[The author's] story begins in rural Puerto Rico, where her warring parents and seven siblings led a life of uproar, but one full of love and tenderness as well. Growing up, Esmeralda learned the proper way to eat a guava, the sound of the tree frogs in the mango groves at night, the taste of the delectable sausage called morcilla, and the formula for ushering a dead baby's soul to heaven. But just when Esmeralda seemed to have learned everything, she was taken to New York City, where the rules - and the language - were bewilderingly different. How Esmeralda overcame adversity, won acceptance to New York City's High School of Performing Arts, and then went on to Harvard, where she graduated with highest honors, is a record of a tremendous journey by a truly remarkable woman.-BooksInPrint

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