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When Catalina Ortiz Midori walks into a shabby New York dance studio for her first mambo class, she has no idea her life is about to change. A Japanese-Cuban immigrant who has lost touch with her Cuban roots, Catalina is mesmerized by the one-eyed teacher, El Tuerto, a titan of the New York... read more
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The Copacabana of the nineties, located on Fifty-seventh Street between Eleventh and Twelfth Avenues, was designed to dazzle, with its carpeted ramp spiraling down to steps that led to the main dance floor, pink neon palm trees over the bandstand, and over that, the sun or moon and stars or fireworks blazing up at appropriate moments in the music.
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- Patricia Chao (Author)
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