When I Was Puerto Rican: A Memoir (A Merloyd Lawrence Book)

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Named one of “The Best Memoirs of a Generation” by Oprah’s Book Club.

Esmeralda Santiago’s story begins in rural Puerto Rico, where her childhood used to be full of both tenderness and domestic strife, tropical sounds and sights in addition to poverty. Growing up, she learned the right kind way to eat a guava, the sound of tree frogs in the mango groves at night, the taste of the delectable sausage referred to as morcilla, and the formula for ushering a dead baby’s soul to heaven. As she enters school we see the clash, both hilarious and fierce, of Puerto Rican and Yankee culture. When her mother, Mami, a force of nature, takes to the air to New York with her seven, soon to be eleven children, Esmeralda, the oldest, will have to learn new rules, a new language, and in the end take on a new identity. In this first volume of her much-praised, bestselling trilogy, Santiago brilliantly recreates the idyllic landscape and tumultuous circle of relatives life of her earliest years and her tremendous journey from the barrio to Brooklyn, from translating for her mother on the welfare administrative center to high honors at Harvard.

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