"Acevedo-Quiñones's prose activates the senses; we smell and taste and hear and feel and see with her, through her, the syrupy sweetness of Kola Champagne, the sound of rain on a metal roof, the click of dominoes, cigarettes, cognac, beer. The book tracks a person coming into their adulthood among other adults, what it is to leave home, to return to it, to have it with you despite being away. Acevedo-Quiñones speaks what had been unspoken, the transgressions, the assaults, the catastrophes, personal, political, environmental. It's a book of political force: She shows how the colonial relationship between the US and Puerto Rico lives in the bodies of Puerto Ricans and impacts how the island, and the people on it, recover from storm."-- "The Boston Globe"

Publisher: Rose Metal Press

Pub date: 2023-10-24

Length: 160 pages