When I was Puerto Rican

by Esmeralda Santiago

1994 274 pages eng ★ 3.7 (7 ratings)

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 de…