Michele Carlo

A voice from the loudspeaker blared, «Will the family who brought the little redheaded white girl to the Puerto Rican Day parade please come to the bandstand to pick her up.» I looked around. Wait a minute. I am at the bandstand. I am that lost girl!Michele Carlo, a redheaded, freckle-faced Puerto Rican raised in the Polish section of the Bronx, grew up as a permanent outsider. Too white for her proud, Spanish-speaking relatives and a mystery to her schoolmates, Michele braved a search for...