Lamentos borincanos

“In-depth exploration of Puerto Rican popular culture… with a dynamic literary style.” –Publishers Weekly. Iluminada focused all her efforts in reaching middle-class status and instead achieved her children’s contempt. Salvador’s goal was to earn the respect of a woman who never gave it to him. A young woman accused of robbery reveals during a police interrogation her bourgeois past as a decent but misguided girl. An old retiree, a man dying on a discarded mattress in an alley and a drug addict: three characters who interpret their lives from intersecting perspectives in the context of an island in political and social anomie. Faced with the shared reality, the only choices are disease, madness and death.