Praise for Santiago.

• Author: Andrade, Marixa N.
• Position: UPFRONT - Letter to the editor

I would like to congratulate you for such an informative magazine, and for your good taste in selecting Latin American authors. I especially enjoyed Esmeralda Santiago's interview, a writer I greatly admire. I think she is one of the few Latin American authors who has made an effort to positively impact the Hispanic community in the United States. Through her biography, she makes us reflect on our own roots and on who we want to be. Very few people personally participate with our community as she has done.

I voraciously read her book When I Was Puerto Rican in a couple of days with tears in my...