Title: Lukewarm
Product review: This book started well, but about the time the author enters Sidwell Friends, I was paging ahead to see if it was ever going to be 'dazzling.' Young Gigi is far less interesting and 'cute' than she imagines herself to be.The rendering of all her mother's foul mouthed dialogue into Cubenglish dialect grated after the first couple of chapters.Mami in general seems rude, arrogant, and snobby.I am mystified at the author's identification with all things Cuban. Her grandparents were all Eastern European Jews who immigrated to Cuba in the 1920's, and the entire family left in 1960, when the author was two, so how Cuban are they? Her nostalgia for Cuba seems mostly for the family's lost wealth there rather than the country itself. The author seems far more spoiled JAP than Cuban.Other than a few amusing vignettes and anecdotes, this book is isnt worth the time.
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