Books by Judith Ortiz Cofer

A collection of poetry, personal essays and short fiction, in which the dominant subject - the lives of Puerto Ricans in a New Jersey barrio - is drawn from the author's own childhood.

Set in the 1950s and 1960s, The Line of the Sun moves from a rural Puerto Rican village to a tough immigrant housing project in New Jersey, telling the story of a Hispanic family's struggle to become part of a new culture without relinquishing the old.

A Spanish-language edition of ""The Latin Deli"", Judith Cofer's prizewinning collection of short stories, personal essays, and poems. This work opens a door into the lives of the Puerto Rican immigrants who live in or near an urban New Jersey tenement known as the ""El Building"".

A collection of essays interwoven with poems and folklore. Judith Ortiz Cofer tells the story of how she became a poet and writer and explores her love of words, her discovery of the magic of language, and her struggle to carve out time to practise her art.