“Santos writes simply and skillfully of his countrymen who leave home for America, of the pain of separation, loneliness, longing, yesterday’s hopes and tomorrow’s dream. His portraits of these gentle, courageous exiles are moving as he shows how each struggles to make his way into the new and, trying to find a life far from his roots while sustained by the dream of a return home. Santos gets to the heart of what it is like to be uprooted, along, alien.” – Publishers Weekly. 250 pp., paperback