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"One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of attention, and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied but to be read."
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ZIN Product Number: 10182193
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 1st ed., 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage Books
ISBN: 0679756760
Release Date: Jan 5, 2001
Average Reader Review:   (Based on 3 reviews.)
| |  | | | In Brief
The author "tells of her childhood in Puerto Rico in the 1950s and of her family's move to New York when she was 13." (Libr J)
| | | | From The Publisher
Selling over 16,000 copies in hardcover, this triumphant coming-of-age memoir is now available in paperback editions in both English and Spanish. In the tradition of Black Ice, Santiago writes lyrically of her childhood on her native island and of her bewildering years of transition in New York City.
| | | | Annotation
From a rippled zinc shack in rural Puerto Rico to "the better life" in a decaying Brooklyn tenement, Esmerelda Santiago's Puerto Rican childhood is one of sorcery, smoldering war between the sexes, and high comedy. Hers is a portrait of a harsh but enchanted world that can never be reclaimed.
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 | | | | | Number of Reviews: 3 Average Rating:
Incredible Writing!
-- A reviewer, July 29, 2002
Also Recommended: America's Dream
This was a good book to read! 
-- Alyssa Ocasio, a student at St. Joseph High School, May 16, 2002
Also Recommended: La Casa En Mango Street and El Beso De La Mujer Arana
profoundly moving
-- Dee, someone who loves true stories, June 2, 2002
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