Williams' novel offers a bitingly funny snippet of Cuban American life in Miami. Just scan the novel's cast of characters: Lean, a post-Cold War spy working for a newspaper; Viviana, a Russo-Cuban waiflet looking to spring her Russian general dad from prison; her brother Boris, a bouncer at the Yalta Agreement, a strip joint; Dell, an academic rogue who specializes in ghost-writing anything from a term paper to a dissertation; and Rool... well, you'll just need to decide who Rool and NumberOne might be on your own.
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Williams' novel offers a bitingly funny snippet of Cuban American life in Miami. Just scan the novel's cast of characters: Lean, a post-Cold War spy working for a newspaper; Viviana, a Russo-Cuban waiflet looking to spring her Russian general dad from prison; her brother Boris, a bouncer at the Yalta Agreement, a strip joint; Dell, an academic rogue who specializes in ghost-writing anything from a term paper to a dissertation; and Rool... well, you'll just need to decide who Rool and NumberOne might be on your own.
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