Pilar: The Continuing Story of the Torres Family of Adjuntas, Puerto Rico

In 1879, Pilar - by some accounts the prettiest of the daughters of Ricardo Torres - is still unmarried and without even a suitor. She is well beyond the age in which her older sisters married and began families of their own, and her younger half sisters tease her relentlessly about being a spinster. Despite living in a large household, Pilar often feels lonely. In addition, she is still grieving the fact that her mother died when she was a small child, and though the stepmother that raised...