the message you want to get across you know what i would like students to know and i think i would like everyone it is what my book is about and the way that i see it it's about a young spoiled a young woman who is terribly spoiled and self centered that sounds familiar then goes through odd ten years of maturation when she comes to new york  she doesn't know what to expect she has tragedy in her life she has ambition she has a passion she begins to meet people that are cars that are out of her class for the first time she comes from a she comes home from a working class not really working class she actually comes from a family where her father is a is a clerk for the spanish government and they look middle class like i say but when she comes to new york she's part of the working class and and i think that that has to be very very hard for her in real life and i wanted to convey that in the book that this woman is put to the test because she sacrifices she has courage she continues and finally when we meet her at the end of the story she is a woman who is confident sure of herself and knows exactly what road she wants to take and that's an important lesson i think for the young adult readers that i'm i really directing this book to thank you look for them on the web and i sure if we have copies of them here tonight but we just put a report in house in last year the housing crisis in puerto rico we just put another report on federal policy for puerto rico that came out last week  seasonal revels in roses is a seasonal season when putting reagan men and women who are living in new york city in other parts of the united states and fighting for as an interation  where she goes from a very small hills self centered young woman and ten years later she becomes the confidence feminist and activist that we know the book is faced by history and what i have done with the story is that i have tried to make it accessible to young adults that would be mostly high school and college students what happens to her what happened to her husband what is she doing what is she doing there where when were they when they when did they leave new york and i called her up and i said you those questions are exactly the questions that i you to hear because if you were my students right now and you were asking me those questions i would take you by the hand and i would guide you to the library and i would show you where those history books are where you're going to get the story what happens believes there's even a hint of african blood polluted family trees but i'll get around that that's when she realizes she crossed the didn't social boundaries i'm destined for an exciting challeng against the grain of popular belief that women would use book learning to write love some written by good you know letters and devise strategies for social change they cited titian's and joined protests that's how you know ther and son and then she has to answer the last question and she answers by saying the truth you want to know how i feel you know since his face fell into the her son's arm she made a circle with her hands around her midsection and angry and and sad and so sad i could cry and cry and never stop you don't feel anything else and a couple of pages later response was her own feelings and i couldn't bring herself to respond with one hand on her nation pain she had her eyes fixed on the path before lost in her own thoughts she thought us reciting it to you or you would find the street corners filled with the newsies standing newspapers and yelling out what the news of the day was a very very high energy very competitive very very exciting way of life nothing compared to what they left behind in puerto rico and this gives you an idea of what the world that they have entered in order to  right across where today the face that is the public library is something that between forty second street and forty street what are the things that i found fascinating is when you begin to do the research and this is this is part of the research to teach you already and says when you begin to do the research and you start to read something you have no idea where it's going to lead you i was doing a lot of reading on the type of houses if people were living in during this time spanish american war when ordering becomes a colony of the united states and in comparing the two groups i was just fascinated by the particular themes that she took up on that were about five hundred women five hundred five hundred stories and really we have we have them in the center library if you're interested or in the local libraries it's all over there was one woman that i  together they reveal they they traced their family history back to the eleven hundreds and stay they are the ones that facilitated for me oh the pictures of the casanova family which i didn't i would have never would have never gotten they are all that they found the third member of the family there with really brothers originally each of these women oh is a daughter of one of the program they find out their their history that's too late and you need to reach them when they're when they're interested and right now they're reading all kinds of great books about going up in brooklyn in shape should shadow shape  you all of the all of this exciting as moving stuff but you also have to make room for the news for the historical stuff because that's where they see themselves and once they see themselves in the curriculum and they know that there's a sense of ownership in terms of of locale in terms of region in terms of themselves so yeah encourage