There is the angst and anger of a barely sane boy in a bar in San Juan, a vengeful country widow who buries her miserly man in a sea of expensive red silk, a lust-crazed lad who wants to be cured by castration, a village idiot spooked out of love, a lost infant who may find her way home too late, an operatic ode to gluttony, and a sassy girl-child who sashays her way to womanhood. 

Critics have said, "Rarely has local color been splashed on a canvas of words as brightly as in this collection." "If you like your fiction short and exotic, and your sins served up in a singular fashion, you'll love these tropical tales."