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The Silk Purse - a memoir by *Raquel Ortiz Castaño (pen name) The Silk Purse is about my early childhood growing up in the South Bronx, New York of the l950's with my Puerto Rican extended family. It begins, when I am three years old, and ends with a major transition in my life at age eighteen. The Silk Purse focuses on Raquel's ingenuity courage and inner strength as she struggles to keep her dreams alive while living in this overcrowded strict yet loving household. The nine-room apartment is filled with her mother, Enedina, her stepfather, Pedro Manuel Castaño, whom she calls
