{"product_id":"dancing-with-cuba-a-memoir-of-the-revolution-9780375725814","title":"Dancing with Cuba: A Memoir of the Revolution","description":"In 1970 a young dancer named Alma Guillermoprieto left New York to take a job teaching at Cuba's National School of Dance. For six months, she worked in mirrorless studios (it was considered more revolutionary); her poorly trained but ardent students worked without them but dreamt of greatness. Yet in the midst of chronic shortages and revolutionary upheaval, Guillermoprieto found in Cuba a people whose sense of purpose touched her forever. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this electrifying memoir, Guillermoprieto-now an award-winning journalist and arguably one of our finest writers on Latin America- resurrects a time when dancers and revolutionaries seemed to occupy the same historical stage and even a floor exercise could be a profoundly political act. Exuberant and elegiac, tender and unsparing, \u003cb\u003eDancing with Cuba\u003c\/b\u003e is a triumph of memory and feeling.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlma Guillermoprieto writes frequently for \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e (where the first chapter of this book appeared in 2002) and \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the author of \u003cb\u003eLooking for History\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eThe Heart That Bleeds\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eSamba\u003c\/b\u003e, and she was named a MacArthur Fellow in 1995. Raised in Mexico and the United States, she now makes her home in Mexico City.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50460161638674,"sku":"9780375725814","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b0c267f9-4e37-4e83-b6af-a9fd60bec7b1.jpg?v=1730031471","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/dancing-with-cuba-a-memoir-of-the-revolution-9780375725814","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}