When the Spirits Dance Mambo: Growing Up Nuyorican in El Barrio
by Marta Moreno Vega
Category: Biography & Autobiography

An evocative memoir of Puerto Rican New York describes one young woman's childhood and coming of age in Spanish Harlem during the 1950s and 1960s, offering a colorful portrait of a dynamic and vibrant community marked by the conflict between the rigid traditions of immigrant parents and their children's American ideals. Original. 20,000 first printing.