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050 00 F128.9.P85|bS267 1998 
082 00 974.7/1004687295/0092|aB|221 
100 1  Santiago, Esmeralda. 
245 10 Almost a woman /|cEsmeralda Santiago. 
264  1 Reading, Mass. :|bPerseus Books,|c1998. 
300    313 pages ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
500    "A Merloyd Lawrence book." 
505 0  "Martes, ni te cases, ni te embarques, ni de tu familia te
       apartes." -- "Something could happen to you." -- "I don't 
       care what American girls do." -- "Are you going to be 
       famous?" -- "But they're still illegitimate." -- "What's a
       Cleopatra dress?" -- "Don't you want to sound Puerto 
       Rican?" -- "I don't care if the whole world is going." -- 
       "She's not exactly Method." -- "Stop thinking and dance." 
       -- "It must be a sin to be so disrespectful to the 
       Virgin." -- "Who do you think you are?" -- "Pearls bring 
       tears." -- " Music inside her." -- "What size bra do you 
       wear?" -- "It wouldn't look right."" -- "Your face is no 
       longer innocent." -- "Where were you last night?" -- "For 
       that slave-girl look..." -- "It is the way it must be."" 
520    Moving beyond the poignant childhood story she told in 
       "When I Was Puerto Rican", Esmeralda Santiago- author of 
       "American Dream" and one of the country's leading Latina 
       voices- recalls her extraordinary journey into womanhood. 
600 10 Santiago, Esmeralda|xChildhood and youth. 
650  0 Puerto Rican women|zNew York (State)|zNew York|vBiography.
650  0 Puerto Ricans|zNew York (State)|zNew York|vBiography. 
651  0 New York (N.Y.)|vBiography. 
651  0 Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)|vBiography. 
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