A picaresque, smart, and smartass memoir of Harvard lawyer Eddie Loperena's Newyorican life in "the country I was offered." Brought to New York from Puerto Rico when he was seven, Eddie Loperena grew up dreaming of returning to his island paradise. As he approaches forty, the loss of his wife and his business partner have landed Eddie at a crossroads, so he closes his legal practice when he gets a call from his estranged boyhood...