A memoir tracing the author's struggle to establish her own identity and independence after she and her family make their way to America from Puerto Rico when she was thirteen.
The author recalls her poor, but enchanted childhood in Puerto Rico, and discusses the challenges she faced when her mother decided to move the family to New York.
A film adaptation of Esmeralda Santiago's memoir of her experiences as a Puerto Rican teenager trying to adjust to life in New York in the 1960s, after moving to the city with her mother and siblings in search of medical care.
Presents the final volume in a trilogy of memoirs by Puerto Rican author Esmeralda Santiago in which she uses the turmoil of her affair with Ulvi, an older Turkish man, to explore racism, sexism, feminism, and the value of education in her life.
