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Fifteen-year-old Doris, the "not-beautiful, not-really-ugly only child of salseros," grew up in a world of stale beer and cigarette butts, always brought along when her parents' salsa band played clubs. Mami, the "Puerto Rican tornado," hopes to hit the big time in Nueva York with her fast-talking entrepreneur of a husband, but she finds the New Jersey barrio where they end up constraining and returns ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More