"Cloistered in the Vagabond Hotel, Oscar Fuentes completes his collection of verse, narrative, and drama by compressing a range of human emotion into a continuity of style and voice. Fuentes explores humor and irony with as much facility as he explores tenderness and longing. Although Fuentes completed his collection in solitude, readers will find themselves lifelong companions to the voice that so lovingly characterizes Miami's iconic Biscayne Boulevard." -Julie Elizabeth Tyler, author and professor of writing.