Casi una mujer, Esmeralda Santiago
Casi una mujer, Esmeralda Santiago
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Casi una mujer

Author: Esmeralda Santiago

Narrator: Esmeralda Santiago

Unabridged: 13 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 09/30/2007

Synopsis

En su nueva memoria, la aclamada autora de Cuando era puertorriquena (CE021) continua su cautivante cronica describiendo su salida de los barrios de Brooklyn a los teatros de Manhattan. "Negi," como carinosamente la llama su familia, deja Macun, un campo de Puerto Rico, en 1961 para vivir en un apartamento de tres habitaciones en un proyecto de viviendas, con siete hermanas y hermanos pequenos, una abuela preguntona, y una mama estricta que no la dejaba salir con muchachos. A los trece anos, Negi anora su propia cama, privacidad, y una vida con su padre, quien permanece en Puerto Rico con su nueva esposa. Mientras traduce para Mami en la oficina delWelfare por la manana, hace el papel de Cleopatra en el prestigioso Performing Arts High School de Nueva York por las tardes, y baila salsa toda la noche, Negi ansia lograr un equilibrio entre ser norteamericana y ser puertorriquena. Cuando desafia a su madre al salir en una serie de graciosisimas citas, Negi descubre que la independencia trae consigo sus propios retos. Una conmovedora historia universal sobre la llegada a la mayoria de edad, a la vez que una valiente y sincera historia de inmigrantes, Casi una mujer es el triunfal camino de Santiago a hacerse mujer.

About Esmeralda Santiago

Esmeralda Santiago is the author of three groundbreaking memoirs: When I was Puerto Rican, Almost a Woman (which she adapted into a Peabody Award–winning movie for PBS Masterpiece), and The Turkish Lover. Her fiction includes the novels América's Dream (also made into a film) and Conquistadora, and a children's book, A Doll for Navidades. Esmeralda is passionate about the artistic development of young people and has traveled the world as a public speaker encouraging literacy, memoir writing, and storytelling. Her books have been translated into fifteen languages.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ashley on November 09, 2020

I didn´t think that I was going to read/finish the book which I´m surprised because reading isn´t my thing. It means that I enjoyed reading it and that I liked it. It´s a good book :)......more

Goodreads review by Lynnie on April 02, 2007

I went into this book thinking that it would talk a little about things I understood like acting and dancing and that the rest of her life would go right over my head. However, I found a very different story waiting inside. Santiago's story had elements of every young persons life who's ever been dif......more

Goodreads review by Andrea on January 21, 2019

Acabé el libro encantada, fascinada, gritando AMIGA DATE CUENTA y desesperada por encontrar la tercera parte. [URL not allowed] Almost a Woman (Casi una mujer, casi señorita) es la segunda parte de las memorias de Esmeralda Santiago. Supongo que puede ser leída sin haber leído a......more

Goodreads review by Tara on September 25, 2009

Wow.. I thought I had a strict upbringing.. Esmeralda's takes the cake. This memoir picks up where "When I Was Puerto Rican" stops (well, the first chapter or 2 basically repeats the end of the first book for those that did not read it) and covers her teenage years. She had a mother that bore eleven......more

Goodreads review by Hannah on February 04, 2012

Since I first happened upon this book and this author in Spanish, I was actually surprised to discover this book was written in English first and then translated into Spanish. Regardless, I thought this was a really interesting and pretty compelling story of a first-generation "immigrant" (since she......more

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