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Cuando era puertorriqueña / Esmeralda Santiago.

Other Titles: When I was Puerto Rican. Spanish

Author: Santiago, Esmeralda.

Edition: 1. ed.

Publisher: New York : Vintage Books, 1994.

ISBN: 9780679756774 (pbk.)
0679756779 (pbk.)

Description: xviii, 296 p. ; 21 cm.

Series: Vintage español

Subject: Santiago, Esmeralda Childhood and youth.
Puerto Ricans New York (N.Y.) Biography.
Puerto Rico Biography.
New York (N.Y.) Biography.

Target Audience: 012-up.

Notes: Translation of: When I was Puerto Rican.

Contents: Introducción a la edición en Español -- Prólogo: c\74\omo se come una guayaba jíbara -- Peleando desnuda -- Te vienen a quitar la falda -- Los Americanos invaden a macún -- Por qué las mujeres se quedan jamonas -- Mami empieza a trabajar -- El mangle -- Cartas desde Nueva York -- Casi señorita -- Sueños de la buena vida -- Ángeles en el cielo raso -- Ni te lo imagines -- Nos va a salir la cosa -- Epílogo: un día de éstos.

Summary: Magic, sexual tension, high comedy, and intense drama move through this autobiography of a young girl who leaves rural Puerto Rico for New York's tenements and a chance for success.

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