When I Was Puerto Rican: A Memoir Epic AND THE NEW AMERICAN VOICES

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When I Was Puerto Rican: A Memoir Epic AND THE NEW AMERICAN VOICESOne 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