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  • Bibliography:
    6 Books
  • First Book:
    August 1993
  • Latest Book:
    August 2023
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Book List in Order: 6 titles



  • One of "The Best Memoirs of a Generation" (Oprah's Book Club): a young woman's journey from the mango groves and barrios of Puerto Rico to Brooklyn, and eventually on to Harvard In a childhood full of tropical beauty and domestic strife, poverty and ...



  • "Lyrical [and] haunting, América’s liberating epiphany will have readers . . . on their feet and cheering."  --  Washington PostFrom the award-winning, best-selling author of When I Was Puerto Rican, América’s Dream explores...



  • Following the enchanting story recounted in When I Was Puerto Rican of the author’s emergence from the barrios of Brooklyn to the prestigious Performing Arts High School in Manhattan, Esmeralda Santiago delivers the tale of her young adulthood, whe...



  • Renowned Puerto Rican author Esmeralda Santiago remembers a poignant Christmas from her childhood in this heartwarming story of giving and understanding.

    Las Navidades are coming. The house smells of cinnamon and coconut, crepe paper festoons ...



  • As a young girl growing up in Spain, Ana Larragoity Cubillas is powerfully drawn to Puerto Rico by the diaries of an ancestor who traveled there with Ponce de León. And in handsome twin brothers Ramón and Inocente -- both in love with Ana -- she find...



  • From the award-winning, best-selling author of When I Was Puerto Rican, a powerful novel of family, race, faith, sex, and disaster that moves between Puerto Rico and the Bronx, revealing the lives and loves of five women and the secret that binds the...




Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Esmeralda Santiago has published 6 books.

Esmeralda Santiago does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Las Madres, was published in August 2023.

The first book by Esmeralda Santiago, When I Was Puerto Rican, was published in August 1993.

No. Esmeralda Santiago does not write books in series.