{"product_id":"dirty-blonde-and-halfcuban-a-novel-9780060721749","title":"Dirty Blonde and Half-Cuban: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eBased on the wildly successful Havana Honey series published by Salon.com  Dirty Blonde and Half Cuban tells the story of an American woman in search of her real father  and of the sexually liberated Cuban society she infiltrates in order to find the roots of her past. In Dirty Blonde and Half Cuban Lisa Wixon asks: how far would you go to find your family? One womans search for her father carries her into a world far from her privileged upbringing and into a perilous fight for survival.The setting is modern day  Communist Cuba. The heroine-narrator is Alysia Vilar  an American from an upper-class  politically connected Washington D.C. family. While Alysias mother lies dying  she reveals a secret that shakes her daughter to the core: her real father is a man named Jos Antonio  a former Cuban translator with whom she had an affair. This propels Alysia into a remarkable odyssey  as she navigates both the rich culture and dark underbelly of Havana  Cuba  to search for the father she never knew she had. Her journey brings her into the orbit of a middle-aged Englishman and his 15-year-old lover and  shockingly  into the world of \"jineteras \" the educated professionals who are forced to prostitute themselves in order to survive. One thinks of Cuba as the sexy  sultry forbidden resort land of JFK and Marilyn  of mojitos and exotic fruits. This is one womans story on the streets of Havana. It is a story told with such gritty realism and narrative aplomb  you think its a memoir. In the end  its one young authors fearless entry into the literature of fathers and daughters  identity and self-discovery  and the journeys in between.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45276788883509,"sku":"ByrdShop_006072174X","price":65.03,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780060721749.jpg?v=1780563106","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/dirty-blonde-and-halfcuban-a-novel-9780060721749","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}