When I Was Puerto Rican TC_Bestseller which won her the Nobel

which won her the Nobel Prize for literature in 1928

Give and Take

and schooling than is widely believed

this account restores a forgotten heroine to her rightful place in the historical record

When I Was Puerto Rican TC_Bestseller which won her the NobelOne of "The Best Memoirs of a Generation" (Oprah's Book Club): a young woman's journey from the mango groves and barrios of Puerto Rico to Brooklyn, and eventually on to Harvard In a childhood full of tropical beauty and domestic strife, poverty and tenderness, Esmeralda Santiago learned the proper way to eat a guava, the sound of tree frogs, the taste of morcilla, and the formula for ushering a dead baby's soul to heaven. But when her mother, Mami, a