In a childhood full of tropical beauty and domestic strife, poverty and tenderness, Esmeralda Santiago learned the proper way to eat a guava, the sound of tree frogs, the taste of, and the formula for ushering a Dead Bab...In a childhood full of tropical beauty and domestic strife, poverty and tenderness, Esmeralda Santiago learned the proper way to eat a guava, the sound of tree frogs, the taste of, and the formula for ushering a Dead Baby's soul to heaven. But when her mother, mami, a force of nature, takes off to New York with her seven, soon to be eleven children, esmeralda, the oldest, must learn new rules, a new language, and eventually a new identity.
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