Certainly, readers who enjoyed Almost a Woman will also enjoy the first volume of Santiago's memoirs, When I Was Puerto Rican.

Readers might also enjoy Las Christmas: Favorite Latino Authors Share Their Holiday Memories, which Santiago coedited with Joie Davidow.

Another fine memoir by a Puerto RicanAmerican author is the fictionalized The Line of the Sun: A Novel, by Judith Ortiz Cofer. Ortiz Cofer weaves together fact and fiction, narrative and folklore to tell the tale of her parents' and grandparents' lives in rural Puerto Rico and her own life in Paterson, New Jersey. Similarly, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, by Julia Alvarez, relates the author's experiences when, as a youth in the 1960s, she and her family moved from Santo Domingo to the Bronx. Alvarez and her sisters rebelled against their parents' traditional upbringing as they struggled to find themselves in...