Santiago, Esmeralda. <br/><br/>
Almost a woman / 
Esmeralda Santiago. 
 - Reading, Mass. :  Perseus Books,  1998. 
 - 313 p. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/> Also by Esmeralda Santiago When I was Puerto Rican.  "A Merloyd Lawrence book." 
<br/><br/>Advance uncorrected Reader's edition 
<br/><br/>"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."" 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0738200433 9780738200439 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>98086520  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Santiago, Esmeralda--Childhood and youth.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Puerto Rican women--Biography.--New York (State)--New York<br/>Puerto Ricans--Biography.--New York (State)--New York
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>New York (N.Y.)--Biography.<br/>Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)--Biography.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>B F 128.9  / S235a 1998 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>974.7/1004687295/0092