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They refer to themselves as "las Madres, " a close-knit group of women who, with their daughters, have created a family based on friendship and blood ties. Their story begins in Puerto Rico in 1975 when fifteen-year-old Luz, the tallest girl in her dance academy and the only Black one in a sea of petite, light-skinned, delicate swans, is seriously injured in a car accident. Tragically, her brilliant, multilingual scientist parents are both kil...

Una novela épica de amor, descubrimiento y aventuras escrita por la autora de Cuando era puertorriqueña   "La narración de Santiago es emocionante.... Un triunfo." —The Washington Post   Desde que era una niña en la España del siglo diecinueve, Ana Larragoity Cubillas se siente atraída por la exuberante y exótica isla de Puerto Rico que describen los diarios de un antepasado que viajó a la isla junto a Ponce de León. Y en los hermanos gemelos,...

From the award-winning, best-selling author of When I Was Puerto Rican, a powerful novel of family, race, faith, sex, and disaster that moves between Puerto Rico and the Bronx, revealing the lives and loves of five women and the secret that binds them together.They refer to themselves as “las Madres, ” a close-knit group of women who, with their daughters, have created a family based on friendship and blood ties.Their story begins in Puerto Ri...

From the award-winning, best-selling author of When I Was Puerto Rican, a powerful novel of family, race, faith, sex, and disaster that moves between Puerto Rico and the Bronx, revealing the lives and loves of five women and the secret that binds them togetherThey refer to themselves as “las Madres, ” a close-knit group of women who, with their daughters, have created a family based on friendship and blood ties.Their story begins in Puerto Ric...

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Lyrical [and] haunting, América's liberating epiphany will have readers . . . on their feet and cheering." — Washington PostDeftly written and fiercely resilient, América's Dream explores the ever-shifting definition of what it means to be American and exemplifies the spirit of every immigrant who has dared to realize the American dream.América Gonzalez is a hotel housekeeper on Vieques, an island off the coast of Puerto Rico, cleaning up afte...

50 evocative images selected from Delano's work held by the Library of Congress.

A simultaneous Spanish-language edition, originally translated for Vintage byNina Torres-Vidal In her new memior, the acclaimed author of When I Was Puerto Rican continues the riveting chronicle of her life. "Negi, " as Santiago's family affectionately calls her, leaves rural Macun in 1961 to live in a three-bedroom tenement apartment with seven siblings, and inquisitive grandmother, and a strict mother who won't allow her to date. At thirteen...

Even as a young girl in nineteenth-century Spain, Ana Cubillas is drawn to the exotic island of Puerto Rico by the diaries of an ancestor who traveled there with Ponce de Len. And in twin brothers Ramn and Inocenteboth in love with Anashe finds a way to get there: she marries Ramn and convinces the brothers that their destiny is in the remote sugar plantation theyve inherited on the island. But Anas fantasies havent prepared her for the unrele...

Amirica Gonzalez is a hotel housekeeper on an island off the coast of Puerto Rico, cleaning up after wealthy foreigners who don't look her in the eye. Her alcoholic mother resents her, her married boyfriend, Correa, beats her, and their fourteen-year-old daughter thinks life would be better anywhere but with Amirica. So when Amirica is offered the chance to work as a live-in housekeeper and nanny for a family in Westchester County, New York, s...

The acclaimed author of "When I was Puerto Rican" continues the riveting chronicle of her life in a heartfelt coming-of-age memoir.

Encuadernación: RústicaDurante su adolescencia en España, Ana Larragoity Cubillas llega a sentir una poderosa atracción por Puerto Rico cuando lee los diarios de un antepasado colonizador. Y en los apuestos gemelos Ramón e Inocente¿que comparten su amor por ella¿ encuentra una manera de llegar a la isla. Ana se casa con Ramón y cruza el océano para establecerse en una remota plantación azucarera, recibida como herencia por los hermanos. Aunque...

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As a young girl growing up in Spain, Ana Larragoity Cubillas is powerfully drawn to Puerto Rico by the diaries of an ancestor who traveled there with Ponce de Leon. And in handsome twin brothers Ramon and Inocente-both in love with Ana-she finds a way to get there. Marrying Ramon at the age of eighteen, she travels across the ocean to Hacienda los Gemelos, a remote sugar plantation the brothers have inherited. But soon the Civil War erupts in ...

Türk Sevgilide Esmeralda, olaganüstü bir mücadele vererek üzerinde büyük etkiye sahip annesi ve kendisinden daha yasli, daha görmüs gecirmis Türk sevgilisi Ulvinin esaretinden kurtuluyor. Zaaflari, sadakati ve aski mantiginin önüne gecerken Esmeralda, romantik bir tutkunun zindandan farksiz bir hale gelebilecegini sonradan anliyor. Esmeraldanin özgürlük ve kendini kesfetme yolunda ciktigi yolculuk, büyük bir cesaret örnegidir. Ulviyle yasadikl...

Esmeralda's relationship with "the Turk" is told with expansive humanity, earthy humor, and psychological courage.

Magic, sexual tension, high comedy, and intense drama move through an enchanted yet harsh autobiography, in the story of a young girl who leaves rural Puerto Rico for New York's tenements and a chance for success.

Magic, sexual tension, high comedy, and intense drama move through an enchanted yet harsh autobiography, in the story of a young girl who leaves rural Puerto Rico for New York's tenements and a chance for success.