Description: This portrait of the glamorous and energetic world of Havana, Cuba, during the 1920s and 1930s centers around a popular nightspot, the Alhambra Theater, and Rachel, the dazzling star of a troupe of rumberos, rhumba dancers, that performs there.
Review Quotes: "Rachel shines like the glit on the cultural glamour of a bygone Cuba. She's all the more human for it." --New Letters Review of Books