This exquisitely crafted novel traces the tortured path of Blanca's life as she struggles to overcome the poverty and oppression of her Puerto Rican South Bronx heritage and terrible emotional price she must pay to find her release from the past. Published in English as the critically acclaimed A Perfect Silence, winner of a Carey McWilliams Award, Porque hay silencio is not simply the Spanish-language version of that work, but an independent and lyrical creation in its own right.