Esmeralda Santiago

From: New Letters on the Air
Series: New Letters on the Air
Length: 29:02

In this Hispanic Heritage Month interview about her memoirs WHEN I WAS PUERTO RICAN and ALMOST A WOMAN, author Esmeralda Santiago discusses being torn between two cultures in her transition from Puerto Rico to New York. Read the full description.

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Playing: Esmeralda Santiago
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Chair_small Emeralda Santiago, a novelist and memoirist, appears on this episode of New Letters on the Air in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month. It makes a perfect hour-long pairing with our program with Martin Espada. In this interview, Santiago discusses her memoir “Almost A Woman,” the sequel to her first book, “When I Was Puerto Rican.” Santiago explores her life as a Puerto Rican immigrant in New York, and the tension of being pulled apart by two very different cultures and languages. Her newest memoir, “The Turkish Lover,” came out in paperback on Aug. 30. For more information about this or any other New Letters on the Air program, please call Angela Elam or Dennis Conrow at 235-1159 or visit www.newletters.org/ontheair.asp.

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Piece Description

Emeralda Santiago, a novelist and memoirist, appears on this episode of New Letters on the Air in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month. It makes a perfect hour-long pairing with our program with Martin Espada. In this interview, Santiago discusses her memoir “Almost A Woman,” the sequel to her first book, “When I Was Puerto Rican.” Santiago explores her life as a Puerto Rican immigrant in New York, and the tension of being pulled apart by two very different cultures and languages. Her newest memoir, “The Turkish Lover,” came out in paperback on Aug. 30. For more information about this or any other New Letters on the Air program, please call Angela Elam or Dennis Conrow at 235-1159 or visit www.newletters.org/ontheair.asp.