Remember Puerto Rico? That island surrounded by water? The one had got hit by not just one hurricane but two? The one that still hasn’t had its electricity completely restored? Yeah, that one.

This book is a compilation of different artists who either live or have lived in Peurto Rico. And unlike some anthologies that just says things like, hey, buy this book and help raise fund for brining Puerto Rico back from the brink, this one educates. I make it a point of knowing indigenous peoples history. I tell people everything I know, and the wrongs we have done, as white people, as colonists to the people who were here first, but wow, there is stuff in this book that I didn’t even have a ingling of.

There are stories of the original indigious peoples that lived on the island before first contact with Columbus, and the disaster that that brought. There are stories of the horrors of what the Spaniards brought, and then the Americans. There is even a story where the father is retelling history of the Spaniards, where the Indiginous peoples are taken care of, and live well. Even though there are no “tribes” of the original people left, most of the people in Peurto Rico have the DNA of those peoples.

So, while this is a good book to buy to help raise money for Puerto Rico’s recovery, this is also an excellent book to get educated with, while being entertained...and outraged at what the Puerto Rican’s have had to endure in the past and are still enduring.

Even though this is a review copy, I damn well am going to go out and buy this when it is published. It is a great collection to own, and learn from.

Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.