The Defining Sea (Puerto Rico Trilogy) - Softcover

Friedman, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1620060086 ISBN 13: 9781620060087

Publisher: Brown Posey Press, 2019

Synopsis

Crime, corruption, and colonialism—as well as compassion, survival, and dark humor—are woven into The Puerto Rico Trilogy, which consists of three separate character-driven novels that focus on the Caribbean island and its complex political and social relationship with the U.S.

"The Defining Sea." book two, was also sparked by U.S.-Puerto Rico history. Its plot is derived from the U.S, Navy’s decades-long live fire and bombing exercises on the inhabited offshore Puerto Rico island of Vieques, which caused death and serious illness. The story told concerns a 20-year-old University of Puerto Rico student who delivers drugs between the island and the states to raise money for a scholarship that will be named after his girlfriend, killed by police during a protest against the Navy’s maneuvers.

About this title

About the Author

Robert Friedman was born and raised in the Bronx, N.Y, and spent more than 20 years living in Puerto Rico and working for the English-language San Juan Star. as well as a special correspondent for the New York Daily News. He was Washington correspondent for the Puerto Rico newspaper and has had five novels published. Friedman lives outside the nation's capital, in Silver Spring, Md.

Edition details

• Publisher: Brown Posey Press
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1620060086
• ISBN 13: 9781620060087
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 162