puerto rican youth

In addition to the ordinary problems of a Puerto Rican teenager in Brooklyn, Sierra Santiago is working on developing her shadowshaping skills, and she is beginning to think she may need all the skill she can summon because it seems that when she channeled hundreds of spirits through herself in order to defeat Wick she woke up something very powerful and very unfriendly and put her family and friends at risk.

Antonia Pantoja recounts the major milestones of her life and discusses how those milestones reflect the larger experiences of New York-area Puerto Ricans.

In addition to the ordinary problems of a Puerto Rican teenager in Brooklyn, Sierra Santiago is working on developing her shadowshaping skills, and she is beginning to think she may need all the skill she can summon because it seems that when she channeled hundreds of spirits through herself in order to defeat Wick she woke up something very powerful and very unfriendly and put her family and friends at risk.

Contains writings by twenty Puerto Rican authors, including autobiographical recollections and fiction stories, in which they discuss the cultural conflicts they experienced during their childhoods.