Esmeralda Santiago, Author . Da Capo $25 (341p) ISBN 978-0-7382-0820-6
"I will teach you everything," says Santiago's lover, the Turkish filmmaker Ulvi Dogan. "But you must listen to what I say." Thus begins the deftly understated saga of an intense, abusive relationship in Santiago's third...
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Esmeralda Santiago, Author Vintage Books USA $12.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-679-75676-7
Santiago's artful memoir recounts her childhood in rural Puerto Rico and her teenage years in New York City; also available in a Spanish-language edition, $11 *-75677-9 (Aug.)
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Esmeralda Santiago, Author Da Capo Press $20 (288p) ISBN 978-0-201-58117-1
``Our home was a giant version of the lard cans used to haul water from the public fountain. Its windows and doors were also metal, and as we stepped in, I touched the wall and burned my fingers.'' So begins this involving memoir of family life,...
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Esmeralda Santiago, Author HarperCollins Publishers $23 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-017279-4
Santiago, author of the memoir When I Was Puerto Rican, establishes herself as a strong and irresistible new voice in fiction with this story of a Puerto Rican woman who comes to America and discovers herself. America Gonzales, 30, cleans hotel...
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Esmeralda Santiago, Author Perseus Books Group $24 (313p) ISBN 978-0-7382-0043-9
This sequel to the story of Santiago's childhood (When I Was Puerto Rican) covers her life as an adolescent and young woman when she lived in Brooklyn, New York, with her mother (Mami) and 10 siblings during the 1960s. Puerto Rican immigrants, the...
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Esmeralda Santiago. Knopf, $26.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-307-26832-7
Santiago (When I Was Puerto Rican) brings passion, color, and historical detail to this Puerto Rican Gone with the Wind, featuring a hard-as-nails heroine more devoted to her plantation than to any of the men in her life. Gloriosa Ana María de los...
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Esmeralda Santiago, Author, Enrique O. Sanchez, Illustrator , illus. by Enrique O. Sanchez. Scholastic $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-439-55398-8
Caribbean breezes, not swirling snow, waft through this autobiographical picture book (adapted from a previously published essay) set on the sunny, lush island of Puerto Rico. Santiago (When I Was Puerto Rican
) recalls childhood memories and...
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Esmeralda Santiago. Knopf, $28 (336p) ISBN 978-0-307-96261-4
Santiago (Conquistadora) delivers an immersive intergenerational saga set in New York City, Maine, and Puerto Rico. Lesbian couple Ada and Shirley and their friend Luz are the “las madres” of the title; Luz’s daughter Marysol, whose apartment is...
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