Esmeralda Santiago's Memoirs
3 books in seriesWhen I Was Puerto Rican Publisher's summary

You're getting two free audiobooks.
You're getting two free audiobooks.
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Book 1
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When I Was Puerto Rican
- By: Esmerelda Santiago
- Narrated by: Esmeralda Santiago
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Esmeralda Santiago reminisces about her childhood in Puerto Rico and her early years in Brooklyn as the oldest of seven (soon to be 11) children. Her upbringing is turbulent on account of her parents’ relentless fighting, which only ever seems to stop when they have another baby. When her youngest brother has an accident, her mother decides to move to New York with her children to seek medical treatment. Arriving in the United States, 13-year-old Santiago experiences uprooting and a loss of identity while she tries to adapt to a culture and language that are foreign to her.
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Praise
- By Deborah De Jesus on 04-25-19
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When I Was Puerto Rican
- Narrated by: Esmeralda Santiago
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 12-11-18
- Language: English
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Book 2
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Almost a Woman
- By: Esmeralda Santiago
- Narrated by: Esmeralda Santiago
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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In Almost a Woman, Esmeralda Santiago continues narrating her memoirs, which pick up five years after debut When I Was Puerto Rican left off. In this volume, “Negi” tells the listener all about her teenage years amidst the turbulent mid-'60s. In a small Brooklyn apartment, Negi leaves her childhood behind and starts to become a woman. But she’s still surrounded by 10 siblings and a mother who relies heavily on her on account of her being the eldest.
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Hopeful but disappointed
- By james aumenta on 08-15-23
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Almost a Woman
- Narrated by: Esmeralda Santiago
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 09-08-17
- Language: English
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Book 3
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The Turkish Lover
- a memoir
- By: Esmeralda Santiago
- Narrated by: Esmeralda Santiago
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
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The Turkish Lover, the third installment of Puerto Rican writer Esmeralda Santiago’s memoirs, is the story of her love affair with Ulvi Dogan, a Turkish man 17 years older than her. Initially he provides an escape from her family home but soon winds up being even more demanding than her mother. The story begins in Brooklyn, passes through Miami, and finishes in Massachusetts, where Santiago graduated magna cum laude from Harvard.
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It Spoke to my own abusive experience
- By Socorro Gallegos Serrano on 06-03-23
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The Turkish Lover
- a memoir
- Narrated by: Esmeralda Santiago
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 10-25-18
- Language: English
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