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Dirty blonde and half-Cuban a novel

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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  • "Learning that her real father is a Cuban translator, Alysia Vilar journeys to communist Cuba where she falls in with an Englishman, his fifteen-year-old lover, and a circle of professionals who are forced to prostitute themselves."
  • "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."@en
  • "Basada en la semi-autobiogrAfica y extremadamente popular serie "Havana Honey" publicada en Salon.com, Casi Rubia en la Isla del Deseo es el valiente retrato de una mujer determinada a infiltrar a Cuba, en la actualidad, para encontrar al padre que nunca conociO. En su bUsqueda, la americana privilegiada Alysia Briggs se queda sin dinero y completamente sola en la Habana. Desesperada por la situaciOn, se encuentra obligada a adoptar la vida de las jineteras'las cubanas educadas que complementan su ingreso escaso acomodando a los turistas que llegan a Cuba en busca de sexo. Con un vIvido ojo para los detalles y un ingenio agudo, Lisa Wixon relata el recorrido de Alysia y crea una canciOn de amor para Cuba'un tributo de todo corazOn a las personas valientes que enfrentan una pobreza que paraliza al alma, donde los doctores ganan dieciocho dOlares mensuales y un par de vaqueros cuesta el doble."@en

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  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Bildungsromans"@en
  • "Bildungsromans"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en

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  • "Dirty blonde and half-Cuban a novel"@en
  • "Dirty Blonde And Half-cuban"
  • "Dirty blonde and half-Cuban : a novel"
  • "Dirty blonde and half-cuban"@en
  • "Dirty blonde and half Cuban : a novel"
  • "Casi rubia en la isla del deseo : una novela"
  • "Casi Rubia en la isla del deseo = Dirty blonde and half-Cuban : una novela"

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