When I Was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago

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Title: When I Was Puerto Rican
Author: Esmeralda Santiago
Number of Pages: 274 pages
My Rating: 5/5

This is Esmeralda Santiago's memoir of growing up in Puerto Rico and moving to New York at age thirteen. It ends with her about to start high school and I assume the second of her three memoirs picks up from there. I'm eager to read it. I'm sure it will be as well-written and engaging as this was.

Comments

[cyphomandra.livejournal.com]

Ooh. I read this some years ago and loved it - and had no idea there were sequels! Thanks for mentioning it.

[kyuuketsukirui.livejournal.com]

Yes! The second is Almost a Woman and the third is...The Turkish Lover, I think (I don't have that one yet, but it's on my wishlist).