The Turkish Lover: A Memoir
by Esmeralda Santiago
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Author: Esmeralda SantiagoEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-08-10
ISBN: 030681451X
Number of pages: 368
Publisher: Da Capo Press
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Book Review: From Mommy to the "Man I Love..."
Summary: 5 Stars
A spectacular journey from adolescence to womanhood! A book you cannot understand fully if you are not Puerto Rican (a book written at the anthropological level). A great documentation of Puerto Rican slang and customs and the feelings of Latina women deep inside their souls. You will follow Esmeralda-Chiquita from Brooklyn, Midtown-Manhattan, Florida, Texas, Upstate-New York, Cambridge to the comeback at the island she left and found so different. All expressed between the two poles a Puerto Rican girl looks to the world: her mother and the man she tries to love.
Summary of The Turkish Lover: A Memoir
Enthralled admirers of Esmeralda Santiago's memoirs of her childhood have yearned to read more. Now, in The Turkish Lover, Esmeralda finally breaks out of the monumental struggle with her powerful mother, only to elope into the spell of an exotic love affair. At the heart of the story is Esmeralda's relationship with "the Turk," a passion that gradually becomes a prison out of which she must emerge to become herself. The expansive humanity, earthy humor, and psychological courage that made Esmeralda's first two books so successful are on full display again in The Turkish Lover.
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