Streets of Fire

By Soledad Santiago

Book Overview

With her professional and personal lives in complete upheaval, Francesca Colon is determined to be just as good a police officer and parent as any man could be. And even though stress is a constant companion, somehow she manages to get through the day. This is her irresistible New York survival story that swings to a Latin beat.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525940782
• ISBN13: 9780525940784
• Release Date: June 1996
• Publisher: Dutton
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 20.0" x 20.0" x 20.0"

Customer Reviews

Slow to start, but in the end pretty captivating

As an african-american man with a latino wife, I began reading this book feeling priveleged enough by my wife's background to fully understand and relate to the hispanic culture depicted here so intensively. At first, though, having to bother my wife for some translations in the beginning, and being somewhat putoff by the main character's escape from near calamity had me negatively prejudging the effect this book would have on me. But in the end, even though the effects of the opening explosion on both the main character and her best friend were never revisited, leaving me to question why it was even included in the first place, when I finished the book, like a fellow reviewer wrote, the characters certainly stayed with me. Ms. Santiago has a notable poetic writing ability and, I might add, a knack for crafting pretty exquisite sex scenes. Overall, a much-needed positive and uplifting depicting of a hispanic family's rise from humble beginnings to movers and shakers still devoted to life together, in addition to warmly depicting the young single parents unenviable task of raising children into young adults while finding room to nurture your own spiritual and sensual needs also. Can't wait to read more by this gifted writer.

Very good mix of issues that relate to ethnic backgound

Soledad Santiago does a very good job in showing the constant pressure of single parenthood and also the tension that cultures within other cultures ignites when one social group abuses another. This book deals with issues that are becoming more and more relevant in our society.

This is a great read!

I don't understand why this book haven't gotten enough light. As an African-American, I can understand the comparisons with the novel Waiting to Exhale; meaning that this book has the same fire. It's actually better! There's nothing better than writing a story about everyday life--in NYC that is! Get this book, it's worth your time and money. It's not overhyped like many books; it's truly underrated. Go out and get it now! It's hot!

warms the heart with love and laughter, hot sex too

This is the story of a single mom who falls in love again just as her children are getting ready to leave the nest. She is a Latina, her new love is African American. The story is set in New York city where he's a young Johnny Cochran - except he only defends the good guys - and she's a spokesperson for the NYPD. The story is obviously told by an insider - the author worked in New York politics - and it's told with a woman's point of view. I savored this book and its characters are still with me. I feel that I know them. The writing too touched my heart with poetry