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Title: When I Was Puerto Rican
Author: Esmeralda Santiago
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Year: 1993
Country: Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (an unincorporated territory of the United States)
286 pages
This is primarily a memoir of a Puerto Rican childhood. Santiago gives a satisfying account of daily life with its occasional dramatic, punctuating events. She uses description well to imbue the landscape with emotional resonance. The New York section was thinner and seemed rushed. It would have benefited from an additional 20% of the page count added to allow more showing and less telling.
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