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Synopsis
Based on the wildly popular, semi-autobiographical "Havana Honey" series published by Salon.com, Dirty Blonde and Half-Cuban is a gritty portrait of one woman's determination to infiltrate modern Cuba and find the father she has never known.
While on her search, privileged American Alysia Briggs ends up broke and alone in Havana. She's then forced to adopt the life of the jineteras -- educated Cuban women who supplement a desperate income by accommodating sex tourists.
With an eye for detail and a razor wit, Lisa Wixon relates Alysia's journey and creates a love song to Cuba, a heartfelt tribute to a resilient people facing soul-numbing poverty in a land where M.D.s and Ph.D.s earn $18 a month, and a pair of jeans costs twice as much.
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"Wixon has crafted an unflinching debut novel that, if it were a woman, might lean against a streetpost in old Havana, stare you boldly in the eye, and dare you to say something.
"By turns tender and terse, "Dirty Blonde and Half-Cuban" takes the reader on a young woman's dizzying, sometimes shocking journey to find her Cuban roots, and succeeds in creating a refreshingly cynical, unpatronizing window into life in modern Cuba.
"In a post-Hemmingway era, when too many authors instinctively romanticize Cuban women as passionate or hot-blooded, Wixon accurately presents a brutal, comic tale of the contemporary Cuban condition, where too many bright, beautiful women have replaced morality and doctorate degrees with desperation and prostitution.
"I know a lot of Cuban men on the island who will loathe this book for waving Cuba's semen-stained sheets for the world to see, and for that Wixon deserves a bodyguard, and a great big you go, girl."
----Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, author of "Dirty Girls Social Club" and "Make Him Look Good"
About the Author
Lisa Wixon has lived in Europe and Latin America and traveled to more than forty countries. She currently makes her home in New York City. Dirty Blonde and Half-Cuban is her first novel.
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- PublisherHarperCollins/Rayo
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0060721758
- ISBN 13 9780060721756
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages272
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