The seductive world of flamenco forms the backdrop for a classic tale of independence found, lost, and reclaimed. Like Bizet's legendary gypsy, Carmen La Coja (The Cripple) Santos is hilarious, passionate, triumphant, and mesmerizing. A renowned flamenco dancer in Chicago despite the legacy of childhood polio, Carmen has long enjoyed an affair with Agustín, the married director of her troupe—a romance that's now growing stale. When she begins a new, passionate liaison with Manolo, Agustín's grandson and a dancer of natural genius, an angry rivalry is sparked. Carmen finally makes her way back to happiness in this funny, fiery story that's equal parts soap opera, tragicomedy, and rhapsody.
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Ana Castillo es autora de las novelas The Mixquiahuala Letters, Sapogonia, So Far From God, y una colección de poesía, My Father fue un Tolteca y Poemas Seleccionados. Ha recibido un Premio del Libro Americano, un Premio Carl Sandburg, un Premio Librerías de las Montañas y las Llanuras y becas de la Fundación Nacional de las Artes en ficción y poesía. Castillo vive en Chicago con su hijo, Marcel.
Emily Tremaine is an actress and audiobook narrator. She has acted in several major motion pictures, including The Wolf of Wall Street and Obvious Child, and was one of the narrators featured on the audio version of Chuck Klosterman’s Eating the Dinosaur.