When I Was Puerto Rican TC_Bestseller which won her the Nobel

which won her the Nobel Prize for literature in 1928

defies both genres and expectations

By surfacing young men’s experience in all its complexity

showing that work can be organized in an infinite number of ways that are good for humans and for business

this account restores a forgotten heroine to her rightful place in the historical record

When I Was Puerto Rican TC_Bestseller which won her the NobelOne of "The Best Memoirs of a Generation" (Oprah's Book Club): a young woman's journey from the mango groves and barrios of Puerto Rico to Brooklyn, and eventually on to Harvard In a childhood full of tropical beauty and domestic strife, poverty and tenderness, Esmeralda Santiago learned the proper way to eat a guava, the sound of tree frogs, the taste of morcilla, and the formula for ushering a dead baby's soul to heaven. But when her mother, Mami, a