%0 Journal Article %T A Puerto Rican story: family installments by Edward Rivera %A Diana V¨¦lez %J Centro Journal %D 2002 %I %X The article discusses the book Family Installments, which is a novel written by the late Edward Rivera. The book¡äs themes and problems, as well as its narrative strategies, are analyzed and described. The book is placed in historical and geographical context, and it is suggested that it forms part of the literary canon of Puerto Rican/Latin American literature. %U http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=37711290010