Word: piri
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gringolandia ("Land of the Gringo") section contains some of the most entertaining and touching stories. Piri Thomas recounts how he earned respect growing up where "sometimes you don't fit in. Like if you're Puerto Rican on an Italian block." Thomas gritty memoir recalls a childhood in the Bronx streets looking out for a "bunch of hungry alley cats that could get to their mouse anytime they wanted," "Mr. Mendelsohn" by Nicholasa Mohr recounts the story of the Suarez family through the eyes of a Jewish man watching his neighborhood turn into a Puerto Rican enclave. Nash Candelaria recounts...