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Esmeralda Santiago
From the award-winning, best-selling author of When I Was Puerto Rican, a powerful novel of family, race, faith, sex, and disaster that moves between Puerto Rico and the Bronx, revealing…
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Esmeralda Santiago,Esmeralda Santiago
America Gonzales es empleada de un hotel en una isla en la costa de Puerto Rico, donde limpia los cuartos de extranjeros ricos que miran de reojo. Su madre alcoholica…
From a three room apartment in Brooklyn occupied by ten family members, Esmeralda Santiago begins a journey that is both a triumphant struggle for identity and independence and a mother’s…
En El amante turco, Esmeralda finalmente se libera y supera una lucha monumental con su madre, solo para caer bajo la esclavitud de el turco y descubrir que la pasion…
The story of a young girl who leaves Puerto Rico for New York’s tenements and a chance for success.
Originally published: New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1996.
Providing a unique view of American life during the Great Depression and Second World War, this volume includes an introduction to the life of the photographer and over 50 evocative…
The acclaimed author of When I was Puerto Rican continues the riveting chronicle of her life in a heartfelt coming-of-age memoir.
Enthralled admirers of Esmeralda Santiago’s memoirs of her childhood have yearned to read more. Now in The Turkish Lover, Esmeralda finally breaks out of the monumental struggle with her powerful…
Presents the childhood of a Puerto Rican, that was full of tenderness and domestic strife, tropical sounds and sights, as well as grim poverty. This book narrates the story of…
America Gonzalez is a hotel housekeeper on an island off the coast of Puerto Rico, cleaning up after wealthy foreigners who don’t look her in the eye. America’s Dream is…
Ana faces the dangers of the untamed countryside even as she relishes the challenge of running a sugar plantation in Puerto Rico. But when the Civil War breaks out in…
Magic, sexual tension, high comedy, and intense drama move through an enchanted yet harsh autobiography, in the story of a young girl who leaves rural Puerto Rico for New York’s…
Drawn to the exotic island of Puerto Rico by the diaries of an ancestor who traveled there with Ponce de Leon, Ana Cubillas becomes involved with enamored twin brothers Ramon…
Esmerelda Santiago
A marvelous new anthology from the editors of Las Christmas in which our most admired Latino authors share memories of their mothers.The women lovingly portrayed in Las Mamis represent…
