Love Made Visible: Reflections on Writing, Teaching, and Other Distractions is a collection of the more noteworthy essays the award-winning novelist Silvio Sirias has published over the last eight-years. This compilation displays the author's broad range of interests. Whether he's writing about the craft, about being a teacher, about his unique and at times conflicting cultural outlook as a Nicaraguan-American, about growing up in Los Angeles and Nicaragua, about living in Central America, or about his favorite books and authors these essays are sweeping, insightful, and lively.