Santiago, Esmeralda.

Almost a woman / Esmeralda Santiago. - Reading, Mass. : Perseus Books, 1998. - 313 p. ; 24 cm.

Also by Esmeralda Santiago When I was Puerto Rican. "A Merloyd Lawrence book."

Advance uncorrected Reader's edition

"Martes, ni te cases, ni te embarques, ni de tu familia te apartes." -- "Something could happen to you." -- "I don't care what American girls do." -- "Are you going to be famous?" -- "But they're still illegitimate." -- "What's a Cleopatra dress?" -- "Don't you want to sound Puerto Rican?" -- "I don't care if the whole world is going." -- "She's not exactly Method." -- "Stop thinking and dance." -- "It must be a sin to be so disrespectful to the Virgin." -- "Who do you think you are?" -- "Pearls bring tears." -- " Music inside her." -- "What size bra do you wear?" -- "It wouldn't look right."" -- "Your face is no longer innocent." -- "Where were you last night?" -- "For that slave-girl look..." -- "It is the way it must be.""

Moving beyond the poignant childhood story she told in "When I Was Puerto Rican", Esmeralda Santiago- author of "American Dream" and one of the country's leading Latina voices- recalls her extraordinary journey into womanhood.

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Santiago, Esmeralda--Childhood and youth.


Puerto Rican women--Biography.--New York (State)--New York
Puerto Ricans--Biography.--New York (State)--New York


New York (N.Y.)--Biography.
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)--Biography.

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