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This film emerged from the book Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm, edited by Yarimar Bonilla and Marisol LeBrón. This multi-genre collection brings together the reflections of various scholars, artists, and writers on the overlapping crisis plaguing Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane María.

English version can be purchased from Haymarket Books here.
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The Spanish translation, published through Ediciones Callejón, is forthcoming.

Broad in scope, passionate, and urgent, Aftershocks is a necessary anthology of Puerto Ricans telling the story not just of Maria but of resistance to colonialism, austerity and disaster capitalism.
​—Molly Crabapple, artist, activist, and author of Brothers of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian War

In this gripping collection of essays, poems and photos,  Aftershocks of Disaster captures both the roots of Puerto Rico's current crisis in its continuing colonial status and the determination of the island's people to persevere and forge a better future.
—Juan González, author of Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America, and co-host of Democracy Now!

For those of us who were forced out of Puerto Rico and who watched the hurricane from outside, this book provides beautiful and painful clarity about how we got here and the struggles behind our survival.
​​—Rossana Rodríguez Sánchez, activist, artist and Chicago Council member

The contributors to this powerful volume explain how big structural forces - climate change, colonialism, corruption, and capitalism - contributed to the devastation, but they also chart a radical path forward, towards a more just and sustainable world.“  
​​—Eric Klinenberg, author of Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life