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Binding: Hardcover
Format: Bargain Price
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: May 01, 2005
Sales Rank: 835476
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Book Description:
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 MDs and Ph.D.s earn $18 a month, and a pair jeans cost twice as much.
Winner: The Mariposa Award 2005 for "Best First Book" (Latino Literacy Now)
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I LIKE COMIC BOOKS! BUT THIS WAS NO COMIC BOOK. THIS WAS MUCH BETTER BECAUSE I COULD SEE THE PICTURES CLEARLY AS DESCRIBED BY MS. WIXON. I HAVE OFTEN HAD PROBLEMS WITH WRITERS THAT DONT COMMUNICATE LOCATIONS AND MOODS VERY WELL BUT THIS BOOK CORRECTED THAT PROBLEM TEN FOLD. I READ THE BOOK OVER THE COURSE OF 2 WEEKS BUT BY CHOICE. I SAVORED EACH CHAPTER AND SITUATION THAT OUR TROUBLED PROTAGONIST "AlYSIA" KEPT FINDING HERSELF IN. I WALKED THE STREETS OF CUBA AND I COULD FEEL IT'S OLDNESS AND ITS ... Read More
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Half Blonde, Half Cuban works on several different levels in an extraordinary way for a first novel from an obviously very talented writer.
Like Cuba, the character of Alysia is a constant enigma, that you are trying to figure out until the last page.
If you are thinking of visiting Cuba, or are just interested in the mystery of that Island nation, this book is must reading. One of the key things of a visit to Cuba is a foreigner's inability to read all the signs, no matter ... Read More
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I really enjoyed this book! For some unexplained reason I have always had an interest in Cuba and will probably visit there within the next year. Through such books as CUBA by Stephen Coontz and SUSPICIAN OF RAGE by Barbara Parker, I have grasped a pretty good feel of life in 21st Century Cuba. DIRTY BLOND AND HALF CUBAN has given me an additional point of view. It has also opened my mind to be less judgmental of what one does to survive. Imagine an educated, trained female surgeon that saves lives ... Read More
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Did this woman really earn a degree in communication? Well, I'm not sure what sort of communication it was, but as a fiction writer, she needs help. There are more blatant amateurish errors here than in any book I have ever seen published, anywhere.
Just a few examples:
Page 113: "she... wraps a cloth around my head, obscuring my sight. Limon raises a wan eyebrow." (This is a viewpoint violation which would be recognized as such by any beginning writer of fiction; in a first-person ... Read More
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This book is soooo good! She describes the life in Cuba so realistically. It's hard for many to imagine if they don't know what really has become of Cuba...or rather what Castro has done to Cuba. I highly recommend the book.
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