description: Moving beyond the poignant childhood story she told in When I Was Puerto Rican, Esmeralda Santiago--author of America's Dream and one of the country's leading Latina voices--recalls her extraordinary journey into womanhood.
language: English
title: Almost a Woman
titlecomplete: Almost a Woman
genres: New York, Autobiography, Biography Memoir, Spanish Literature, Biography, School, Memoir, Coming Of Age, Nonfiction, Womens
ratings_count: 3026
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: ALA Alex Award
publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub (T)