WHEN I WAS PUERTO RICAN. by Santiago, Esmeralda.: FINE (1994) | Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams)
1st Edition - Soft cover - Vintage Books, New York - 1994 - Condition: FINE - Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format) Author's highly praised first book, a memoir of a childhood in two worlds - Puerto Rico where she lived until she was 13, and a Brooklyn tenement. The advance issue was for the paperback edition, a year after the first edition was published. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. - WHEN I WAS PUERTO RICAN.
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Two strangers show up at the same Brooklyn apartment to collect cash they’re both owed. Forced to spend the day together on a journey through New York City to find the promised money, the pair begin to open up to one another and reveal intimate details about their lives.