- Biography, Childhood and youth, Puerto Ricans, Puerto Rican women
Esmeralda Santiago's story begins in rural Puerto Rico, where her childhood was full of both tenderness and domestic strife, tropical sounds and sights as well as poverty. Growing up, she learned the proper way to eat a guava, the sound of tree frogs in the mango groves at night, the taste of the delectable sausage called morcilla, and the formula for ushering a dead baby's soul to heaven.
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Classical in form, earnest, resolved and meticulous.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- resolvedopen-ended
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- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Esmeralda Santiago
- First published
- 1993
- Pages
- 274
- Publisher
- Vintage, Addison-Wesley, Hachette Books
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780201581171
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