📚 Just finished reading: When I Was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago (1993)
An autobiography, it is the first of three installments, followed by Almost a Woman and The Turkish Lover. Beginning with Santiago's life in Macún, a sector of Candelaria barrio in Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, it details the circumstances that led to her mother bringing her and her siblings to New York and adjustment to life in America.
📚 Just finished reading: When I Was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago (1993)
An autobiography, it is the first of three installments, followed by Almost a Woman and The Turkish Lover. Beginning with Santiago's life in Macún, a sector of Candelaria barrio in Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, it details the circumstances that led to her mother bringing her and her siblings to New York and adjustment to life in America.