Fantasy Island

“The hurricanes, the debt, the depopulation. Ed Morales has written an urgent, fascinating, and impassioned portrait of Puerto Rico, the world’s oldest colony.”—Daniel Immerwahr, author of How to Hide an Empire

“Ed Morales has put together a compelling indictment of U.S. colonialism in Puerto Rico, based on journalistic and academic sources as well as his personal experiences as a New York‑born Puerto Rican who cares deeply about his ancestral homeland. His work is an engaging, compassionate, well‑documented, and crisply written analysis of the political, economic, and demographic downturn of the Island, after more than a decade of economic recession and almost two years since hurricane Maria.”—Jorge Duany, author of Puerto Rico

“Ambitious, intimidating, and beautiful...This book will be particularly important to readers with a connection to Puerto Rico and useful and thought‑provoking to anyone else seeking to understand capitalism's past, present, and future.”—Library Journal

“[An] eye‑opening economic and political history... [Morales’s] technical yet impassioned polemic will persuade those with a keen interest in the subject.”—Publishers Weekly