This book is a tribute and an introduction of Spoon River anthology, one of the greatest masterpieces of American literature. An extraordinary mosaic where everyone is told through their own unique experience, but ends up returning the unforgettable portrait of a community in which good and evil collide, cowardice and heroism, success and broken dreams. space and time. You can find a common thread between such different destinies? You can see a salvation among many defeats? You can go beyond the American dream of success at all costs? In the history of literature is nothing more alive than this anthology in which the protagonists are dead, voices that speak with the terrible final sincerity of those who no longer has anything to hide. A dialogue in which no reader can escape, because these epitaphs end inexorably to question him about his fate.