This is a Spanish-language edition of "The Latin Deli," Judith Ortiz Cofer's prizewinning collection of short stories, personal essays, and poems. A work rich in longing, love, and remembrance, "El deli latino" opens a door into the lives of the Puerto Rican immigrants who live in or near an urban New Jersey tenement known as "El Building." The book was selected by Rita Dove, Ashley Montague, and Henry Louis Gates Jr. to receive the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, which recognizes work that has made "important contributions to our understanding of racism or our appreciation of the rich...
This is a Spanish-language edition of "The Latin Deli," Judith Ortiz Cofer's prizewinning collection of short stories, personal essays, and poems. ...