Piri Thomas Libros

Thirty years ago Piri Thomas made literary history with this lacerating, lyrical memoir of his coming of age on the streets of Spanish Harlem. Here was the testament of a born outsider: a Puerto Rican in English-speaking America, a dark-skinned morenito in a family that refused to acknowledge its African blood. Here was an unsparing

A Spanish-language edition of a classic memoir of life in the barrio of Spanish Harlem recounts the authors redemption from a life of crime and drugs after his discovery of his own talent for poetry. Original. 10,000 first printing.