TY  - BOOK
AU  - Santiago,Esmeralda
AU  - Santiago,Esmeralda
AU  - Santiago,Esmeralda
TI  - Almost a woman
SN  - 0738200433
AV  - B F 128.9 S235a 1998
U1  - 974.7/1004687295/0092 
PY  - 1998///
CY  - Reading, Mass.
PB  - Perseus Books
KW  - Santiago, Esmeralda
KW  - Puerto Rican women
KW  - New York (State)
KW  - New York
KW  - Biography
KW  - Puerto Ricans
KW  - New York (N.Y.)
KW  - Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
N1  - 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.""
N2  - 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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0831/98086520-d.html
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