Jose Garcia-Pedrosa on Pensándolo Bien: Una ensalada de ensayos con aliño picante/On Further Thought: A Salad of Essays with a Spicy Dressing: Nonfiction

Jose Garcia-Pedrosa is the author of the previous work, America’s Casablanca, a “True Novel” about Miami’s Emergence from Bankruptcy and Corruption, which was presented at Miami Book Fair 2019. After graduating from Harvard (B.A. in economics, with honors) and Harvard Law School, he practiced law, served as city manager for both Miami and Miami Beach, and ran the National Parkinson’s Foundation. He has participated in numerous civic and professional endeavors and organizations and resides in Florida with his life partner, Dr. Norma Goonen, a noted academic. He has two children and, at last count, five beautiful grandchildren – with another on the way. Pensándolo Bien: Una ensalada de ensayos con aliño picante/On Further Thought: A Salad of Essays with a Spicy Dressing was not translated, but written in Spanish and English, so as to preserve the style and beauty of both languages. In it, Garcia-Pedrosa muses over a variety of eclectic topics, including the actual start of the 21st century, George Washington, and Mother Teresa, through writing inspired by the 19th-century Spanish author Mariano José de Larra and the late modern-day author and journalist Christopher Hitchens.