Fiction upcoming in July 2008 from Overlook Press.
Rebecca Horowitz, Puerto Rican Sex Freak
Rebecca Horowitz, Puerto Rican Sex Freak A racy, irreverent take on the memoir, sexual politics and the novel from The Overlook Press in 2008.
What does it say about America when a middle-class young woman dissatisfied with her mixed ethnicity decides to convert to being Puerto Rican? That is exactly what red-headed Rebecca Lynn Horowitz does. A pregnancy prevention social worker to Latina teens, living a fairly sedate life in the middle class neighborhood of Brooklyn's Park Slope, our heroine undergoes a transformation such as you've never read. At a party in the summer of 2000 she meets Charlie Maisonet, a Puerto Rican dandy, and her biological clock starts ticking twice as fast. Through the twists and turns of her romance with Charlie, she moves to his pad in the East Village, becomes Zoraida Delgado, a Puerto Rican exotic dancer, and begins living la vida loca.
Join the author as he once again explores the environs of this pseudo-bohemian Manhattan playground, bends the rules of novel writing and satirizes the memoir, sexual politics, gender roles, and the pretense of our society. He even throws in his own photos of some of the places in the East Village that the characters frequent, including Katz Delicatessen, The Sunshine Theater, Two Boots and the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. Are they really his photos or are they Zoraida's, a photography and film enthusiast?
Oh, the novel also addresses the issue of the Iraq War in a most ingenuous way.
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Casualty Report
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Mendoza's Dreams
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The Comeback
The author's first published novel.
