PositiveAP NewsWith his latest work...the Spanish Harlem-raised novelist takes a big swing to pay homage to Puerto Rican literature and Nuyorican history while crafting a captivating tale amid gentrification, perseverance and inequality set in one of the most famous Latino neighborhoods in the world ... the power of Taina comes from Quinonez bringing to life characters from previous work of Puerto Rican literature and popular culture in a new work ... In his own way, Quinonez is connecting Nuyoricans to a Puerto Rican artistic diaspora and yelling, \'we matter, our stories matter.\' He’s right. These stories matter. So does this one.
