Querida Dra. Polo

Polo is a successful lawyer, legal mediator, and partner in Polo Yablan Associates, but she is best known for her role as TV judge on Caso Cerrado ("Case Closed") on the NBC Telemundo network. Her show tackles a wide range of family-related cases, including divorce, adoptions, paternity suits, custody issues, and domestic abuse-often of the scandalous and shocking variety. She is known for dispensing tough love and straightforward advice with unflinching honesty while trying to find a fair and legal resolution to each case. Given her popularity, she receives thousands of requests each year to appear on the show. This is a compilation of 21 letters from viewers who did not make it onto the show. Most seek advice on topics-promiscuity, sex and drug addictions, gay relationships, and sexual abuse-that are either too sensitive or too intimate to discuss on the air. Polo shares her readers' letters and then offers her advice and counsel, both discussing the legal issues and alternatives and giving her personal opinions. A useful resource list is included. Polo's voice and personality come through in her replies, and fans of her show will be in familiar territory. The book deals with mature topics for mature audiences and will be popular with her many viewers. Recommended for public libraries and general bookstores.—Yolanda J. Cuesta, Cuesta MultiCultural Consulting, Sacramento, CA