Silent Dancing: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood

Cofer's award-winning collection of prose and poetry recalls her childhood spent shuttling between the island of her birth and New Jersey.

"For young readers, this is a delightful, thoughtful assessment of bicultural, bilingual life."—BOOKLIST

Named to The New York Public Library's BOOKS FOR THE TEEN AGE 1991.

Recipient of the PEN-Martha Albrand Special Citation in Nonfiction

Recipient, 1990 Pushcart Prize