This is a neat book. This “First Edition” book was published in 1997 by William Morrow and Company, Inc., New York. The book measures 6 ½ inches by 9 ½ inches and contains xxi, 233 pages. The book is in “like new” condition.

Contents:

Foreword by Ed Vega
Acknowledgements
Introduction by Joy L. De Jesus

I. Neither Here Nor There
The Boy Without a Flag by Abraham Rodriguez, Jr.
Spanish Roulette by Ed Vega
Immigrants by Aurora Levins Morales
Ship of Dreams by Rodney Morales
The Ingredient by Julio Marzain

II. Family Ties
Brothers Under the Skin by Piri Thomas
Silent Dancing by Judith Oritz Cofer
Why Women Remain Jamona by Esmeralda Santiago
Every Sunday by Magali Garcia Ramis
Sofia by Yvonne V. Sapia

III. Survival on the Streets
Kipling and I by Jesus Colon
from A Perfect Silence by Alba Ambert
The Champ by Pedro Juan Soto
Stoopball by Edward Rivera
from Carlito’s Way by Edwin Torres
Johnny Untied by Jack Agueros

IV. Once on this Island
There is a Little Colored Boy in the Bottom of the Water by Jose Luis Gonzalez
Liliane’s Sunday by Ana Lydia Vega
Black Sun by Emilio Diaz Valcarcel
The Gift by Rosario Ferre
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Excerpt – Dust Jacket:
It wasn’t until college that Joy L. De Jesus encountered literature written by a fellow Puerto Rican. For the first time, she was comforted – and proud – knowing that she was not the only one who moved to the sounds of salsa and spoke in Spanglish, who delighted in the familiar smell of rice and beans and traveled uneasily between Puerto Rico and the United States. In fact, she learned there is a body of literature in which people define themselves by the unsettling condition of being neither her nor there, and show ask: Am I black or white? Is my language Spanish or English? Am I Puerto Rican or American? For the Puerto Rican writer, these answers tend to be somewhere in between, and they are never simple. But they are always imbued with the universal joys and tensions of coming of age.

The experience of growing up Puerto Rican has produced some of the most conflicted, political, and poignant writhing of the past century. Now, Growing Up Puerto Rican brings together twenty pieces by some of the most important Puerto Rican writers as well as several provocative new authors. Selections range from autobiographical recollection of the peaceful atmosphere at the corner bodega to one child’s memories of the United States’ 1937 ambush of a Puerto Rican nationalist demonstration; from one boy’s intellectual struggle to reconcile his allegiance to Puerto Rico with his status as an American citizen to a girls losing herself in secret love to escape the routine of family traditions and Catholic rituals.

A collection of writings that explores pain, love, youthful passion, mischief, and betrayal, Growing Up Puerto Rican is an anthology of distinct voices, each touching on the cultural ambiguity that defines growing up Puerto Rican, by the best-loved names in Puerto Rican writing.
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