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Jinetero
An audacious, darkly hilarious memoir recounting a Cuban-American musician’s first trip to Cuba since his parent’s exile, Jinetero takes readers into the business of whoring in Cuba against an expansive backdrop of tragicomic U.S. – Cuba relations, history, and socioeconomic forces fortified by lust, idiocy and necessity.
56 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 14, 2014
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March 23, 2020
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I found Cuban Cowboys by accident and went to a show primarily because I was going to Cuba about 10 years ago. Navarro is a great storyteller and I appreciate the eclectic music styles and use of pitch/tone even in the melodic spoken word mixed with lyrics. The book I just read after many years of traveling to Cuba and there has been change from when he visited and since his writing. But again it’s his storytelling and little “extra” offerings that make the book - and it’s more fun to know his music and Cuba from my own perspective. Like he juxtaposes, a lot depends on your POV (and the degree of wolf one may be).
I found Cuban Cowboys by accident and went to a show primarily because I was going to Cuba about 10 years ago. Navarro is a great storyteller and I appreciate the eclectic music styles and use of pitch/tone even in the melodic spoken word mixed with lyrics. The book I just read after many years of traveling to Cuba and there has been change from when he visited and since his writing. But again it’s his storytelling and little “extra” offerings that make the book - and it’s more fun to know his music and Cuba from my own perspective. Like he juxtaposes, a lot depends on your POV (and the degree of wolf one may be).
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