supercheesegirl

Man, did I read Santiago in the wrong order. I feel like I'm moving backwards through her life. I read The Turkish Lover first, which takes Santiago from when she left her mother's house at 21 to her college graduation in her late 20s; this book takes her from 13 to 21. A lot of the backstory in The Turkish Lover makes more sense now, but this book was even more bittersweet than I think it would have been if I'd read it fresh, because at the end of this book she meets her Turk, and after reading the later book I know just where that ends up. I want to yell at her. I also strongly hope she's working on another memoir, because I want to know what happens to her after college. I could go back further and read her first memoir, When I was Puerto Rican, but I think I might not. I'm not sure if this post made any sense at all.