Culture Clash: My Stories of Growing Up in Puerto Rico and New York

Born into a loving family in Puerto Rico stricken by poverty after World War II, five-year-old Jose Camacho was whisked from his homeland and dropped into an urban borough in a foreign nation. He spent the next decade split between the gritty, uncompromising streets of the Bronx and the warm safety of Caguas, leaving him feeling like a foreigner in both lands. These collected stories span his lifetime, from childhood to old age, in colorful detail and sometimes bawdy language, lacing togeth...