One Shoe on – Un Zapato Puesto

One Shoe On ? Un Zapato Puesto is a bilingual true story about youth, loyalty, family, loss and the long shadow cast by a single night.

Spanning decades and distance – from Brooklyn to Puerto Rico – the book follows the lives of people shaped by friendship, violence, memory, and the choices that stay with us. Through photographs, personal recollections, and reflection, Steven Earl Shelton explores how tragedy can echo across generations while love, resilience and memory endure.

Presented in English and Spanish mirrored paragraph by paragraph, One Shoe On / Un Zapato Puesto is an intimate account of the fragile space between who we once were and who we become.