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Title: Almost a Woman by Esmeralda Santiago ISBN: 0-375-70521-X Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 07 September, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.89 (28 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Deliciously written!
Comment: Almost A Woman is Esmeralda Santiago's memoirs about coming of age as a young Puerto Rican woman residing in Brooklyn during the 1950s. When she first comes to the U.S. with her highly protective mother and two younger siblings, Esmeralda finds herself caught in a struggle between her desire to become Americanized and the need to retain her cultural identity as a Puerto Rican. Before finally leaving the local middle school, she is given a spot at the Performing Arts High School in Manhattan. Soon, Esmeralda is on her way to a life full of excitement, drama, adventure, self-discovery, and personal growth.
Santiago uses delightfully descriptive prose and excellent character development to endear her readers. There is never a dull moment in her storytelling; you feel her ups, downs, and in-betweens. Santiago's whirlwind romances, exploits as an actress and dancer, and adventures with new friends will surely feel as if they've become your own. The end is brilliant and will leave you ravenous for Santiago's next engrossing installment. There is something for everyone to enjoy in Almost A Woman, which should make it highly popular among many different kinds of readers. However, I highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys the performing arts or wants to learn about another culture.
Rating: 4
Summary: A quest for independance
Comment: Almost a Woman portrays the life of author Esmeralda Santiago as a 13-year-old girl who has just moved to the United States from Puerto Rico. She arrives with Mami and 3 siblings while her father stays in her homeland. Thrown into a new culture, "Negi," as called by family, must face the challenges of finding herself while under the watchful eye of her strict mother as well as the scrutiny of New York. Negi is the eldest in a family that eventually includes 11 children; she becomes the one to interpret to welfare agents for the family's needs while trying to protect the family's dignity. She is accepted into the Performing Arts High School in Manhattan under the drama program and goes on to participate in several plays, including one on broadway. As she continues to search for roles, she takes classes at a local college where she meets Shoshana. They become best friends and share their lives with each other. Shoshana plays an important role in Negi's search for identity as well as belonging. The reader is present at Negi's first date and her quest to find true love through many out of the ordinary encounters and heartbreak. I highly recommend this novel to anyone who would enjoy the chronicles of a young girl who is placed in an infamiliar place while searching for who she is. It is easy reading and enjoyable to watch how Negi approaches situations and love.
Rating: 1
Summary: NOT AS GOOD AS THE FIRST BIOGRAPHY!!: IN FACT, HORRIBLE!!
Comment: This is the biography from Esmeralda Santiago that starts off where WHEN I WAS PUERTO RICAN ends off. That is where the comparison/connection ends, because this book is horrible compared to Santiago's first biography. To sum up one part of the book that really sums up the whole: There is one "big" event that happens in this book (won't give it away) and it's 272 pages leading up to it, and when it finally happens, ONE PAGE (and barely that, it's more like half a page) is devoted to describing it. Does that make any sense? Other events are given twenty pages to describe it, and the "big" moment for Santiago gets one page? The talented way Santiago describes her whereabouts and experiences are happily evident on her first biography; in ALMOST A WOMAN, they are almost non-existent. This biography is flat, empty, boring, and just plain stupid. Hard to believe the person who wrote it also wrote the first biography.
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Title: When I Was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago ISBN: 0679756760 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 11 October, 1994 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: America's Dream by Esmeralda Santiago ISBN: 0060928263 Publisher: RAYO Pub. Date: 04 June, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Boricuas: Influential Puerto Rican Writings - An Anthology by Roberto Santiago ISBN: 0345395026 Publisher: One World/Ballantine Pub. Date: 11 September, 1995 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Down These Mean Streets by PIRI THOMAS ISBN: 0679781420 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 25 November, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (Plume Contemporary Fiction) by Julia Alvarez ISBN: 0452268060 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: June, 1992 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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