The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education, June 19th, 2006
Almost a Woman, by Esmeralda Santiago. 314 pages. Random House/Vintage Book, N.Y., 1999. ISBN 0-375-70521-X. $12.95 list, paper.
Esmeralda Santiago is a woman of passion who has become a noted literary voice. When I Was Puerto Rican, her first book, was a memoir that explored the feelings she had as a young girl coming to America and losing her ethnic identity. Her first novel, America's Dream, continued that theme through the window of relationships between mothers and daughters and the time of childhood. The book was published in six languages and was an Alternate Selection of the Literary ...
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