Puerto Rican Love Stories

Fanciful storytelling involves us in the lives of people who experience love, lust, and loss with pluck, humor, and tears. Political overtones, family pathos, and issues of class and poverty create the particularly Puerto Rican narrative. The people in the stories are joyful and sad, at once simple and complicated, passionate, lustful and romantic—exceedingly human. Their stories are a testament to the strength and failures of love in its many dimensions.

Cádiz and Diego agree to go their se...