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. As she enters school we see the clash, both hilarious and
fierce, of Puerto Rican and Yankee culture. When her mother, Mami,
a force of nature, takes off to New York with her seven, soon to be
eleven children, Esmeralda, the oldest, must learn new rules, a new
language, and eventually take on a new identity. In this first
volume of her much-praised, bestselling trilogy, Santiago
brilliantly recreates the idyllic landscape and tumultuous family
life of her earliest years and her tremendous journey from the
"barrio" to Brooklyn, from translating for her mother at the
welfare office to high honors at Harvard.
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