bA vibrant debut short story collection depicting the disillusionment that comes with being young and queer in Puerto Rico.bbrThe visceral, wildly imaginative stories in iBad Seedi flick through working-class scenes of contemporary Puerto Rico, where friends and lovers melt into and defy their surroundings--night clubs, ruined streets, cramped rooms with cockroaches moving in the walls. A horny high schooler spends his summer break in front of the TV a queer love triangle unravels on the emblematic theater steps of the University of Puerto Rico a group of friends get high and watch San Juan burn from atop a clocktower an HIV positive college student works the night shift at a local bathhouse. At turns playful and heartbreaking, iBad Seed iis the long overdue English-language debut of one of Puerto Rico's most exciting up-and-coming writers. br