Bronx

Esmeralda Santiago is the award-winning, best-selling author of “When I Was Puerto Rican.” Her latest, “Las Madres,” is a powerful novel of family, race, faith, sex, and disaster that moves between Puerto Rico and the Bronx, revealing the lives and loves of five women and the secret that binds them together.

First a one-man act,written and acted by Chazz Palminteri, then a movie and now a musical "A Bronx Tale" takes viewers into the 1960s Bronx neighborhood.…