The author describes his boyhood summers spent at his grandmother's apartment in Spanish Harlem where she introduced him to the sounds and steps of the merengue and the conga and told him stories of Puerto Rico
Themes & Content
- Genres
- Fiction
- Central Theme Categories
- Centering Culture & Identity
- Content
- Languages & Communication
- Ethnicity
- Puerto Rican
- Unspecified
- Immigration Representation
- Immigrants
- Gender Representation
- Boys/Men
- Girls/Women
- Race / Culture
- Black/African/African American
- Latinx/Hispanic/Latin American
- Character Prominence
- Dominant Main
- Secondary