Almost Forgot I Was Puerto Rican

It's been sixty years since Alicia left Puerto Rico to come to Philadelphia. Did that mean forgetting your cultural identity? Alicia seeks answers to this question when confronted by her children about their Puerto Rican heritage. In an attempt to justify not teaching them Spanish, she journals about growing up in two cultures, hoping that's the end of that subject. But for her son, Matthew, the journals ignite a desire to know more about the culture of the Puerto Rican people.

Alicia travels on a remarkable journey to her past, rediscovering everything she left behind. She shows us how her family moved to Philadelphia, where she settled into its new culture until decades later, when her sons accused her of depriving them of their ethnicity.

This book is not a memoir but a collection of stories.

This story is for every Puerto Rican from the island to the mainland.

This book is for immigrants that have come to America for a better life but want to hold onto their cultural identity. This book is for Philly, and for everyone who made America their home, our land of beautiful cultures from every corner of the world.

Alicia has written a compelling narrative in a web of stories of the human heart.