Silent Dancing: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood
Cofer's award-winning collection of prose and poetry recalls her childhood spent shuttling between the island of her birth and New Jersey. "For young readers, this is a delightful, thoughtful assessment of bicultural, bilingual life."—BOOKLISTNamed to The New York Public Library's BOOKS FOR THE...
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Cofer's award-winning collection of prose and poetry recalls her childhood spent shuttling between the island of her birth and New Jersey. "For young readers, this is a delightful, thoughtful assessment of bicultural, bilingual life."—BOOKLISTNamed to The New York Public Library's BOOKS FOR THE TEEN AGE 1991.Recipient of the PEN-Martha Albrand Special Citation in NonfictionRecipient, 1990 Pushcart Prize
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Format: Kindle Edition
ISBN:
9781611924169
ASIN: B005NBLJEC
Publish date: 2011-09-14
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
Pages no: 128
Edition language: English
some of this works, some doesn't. A couple of chapters are surprisingly honest while others seem to cover up. I wonder if Cofer was writing with her mother over her shoulder?