Almost a Woman
by Santiago, Esmeralda
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0738200433
- ISBN 13
- 9780738200439
- Seller
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Georgetown, Texas, United States
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About This Item
Reading, MA: Perseus Publishing. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Tan boards quarterbound in darker brown cloth with spine imprinted in gold with title and author. Mustard endpapers. Full number line 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 313 pages. From a three-room apartment in Brooklyn occupied by ten family members, Esmeralda Santiago begins a journey that is both a triumphant struggle for identity and independence, and a mother's worst nightmare. Challenged by language barriers, cultural stereotypes, and the fiercely protective Mami, Santiago continues the rollicking ascent she began in When I Was Puerto Rican. By day she perfects the role of Cleopatra at Performing Arts High School and interprets for the family at city welfare offices. At night she accompanies her mother and sisters to Latin dance halls, but on such a strict leash that she has her first date at the age of twenty. Undaunted, she makes up for lost time in a romantic apprenticeship at once hilarious and heartbreaking .
Synopsis
Esmeralda Santiago lives in Westchester County, New York, with her husband and two children.
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- Storbeck's
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 608687
- Title
- Almost a Woman
- Author
- Santiago, Esmeralda
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0738200433
- ISBN 13
- 9780738200439
- Publisher
- Perseus Publishing
- Place of Publication
- Reading, MA
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY, WOMEN
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography & Autobiography / Women;
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