Dancing with the Tiger, Lili Wright
Dancing with the Tiger, Lili Wright
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Dancing with the Tiger

Author: Lili Wright

Narrator: Timothy Andrés Pabon

Unabridged: 11 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/12/2016

Synopsis

When Anna Ramsey learns that a meth-addicted looter has dug up what might be the funerary mask of Montezuma, she books the next flight to Oaxaca. Determined to redeem her father, a discredited art collector, and to one-up her unfaithful fiance, Anna hurls herself headlong into Mexico's underground art world. But others are chasing the treasure as well. Anna soon realizes that everyone is masked-some literally, others metaphorically. Indeed, Dancing with the Tiger is a splendid reminder that throughout human history, cultures have revered masks: masks are as universal as our desire to transform ourselves, to change. Anna, without an ounce of self-pity despite traumatic losses, stands out as a heroine for our times as she finds the courage to show her true face.

About Lili Wright

Lili Wright spent a decade as a journalist before enrolling in Columbia University’s MFA program in nonfiction. While she was still writing nonfiction, her work appeared in The New York Times, Esquire, Newsweek, the Chicago Tribune, and the Baltimore Sun. Learning to Float, her memoir of a trip from Maine to Key West, was included on The Washington Post's best summer reads list. Dancing with the Tiger took her five years and thirty drafts.

About Timothy Andrés Pabon

Timothy Andrés Pabon is an actor and a voice actor, who has been seen on House of Cards and The Wire. As a stage actor, he has worked Off-Broadway, and his regional credits include Center Stage, The Shakespeare Theatre, The Hippodrome, and GALA Hispanic Theatre, among others. Both a Spanish and English audiobook narrator, he has narrated over sixty books, one of which was nominated for a 2015 SOVAS award. He is from Washington, D.C.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Erin

[URL not allowed] I won a free copy of Dancing With The Tiger By: Lili Wright in a Goodreads giveaway, so thank you to Goodreads and Putnam Books! When I first saw the summary for Dancing With The Tiger I was immediately intrigued by the Mexico setting and the colorful cover. I......more

Goodreads review by Ron

Shuffling quietly through the cool halls of any great museum, patrons have little sense of the moral quagmire that lies behind such collections. And who can blame them? Everything about the way invaluable artifacts are displayed — so immaculate in their glass cases — isolates these objects from the......more

Goodreads review by Eva • All Books Considered

Review originally posted at All Books Considered: 4.5 STARS I will admit that I was initially drawn in by this cover! I love(d) the colors, the imagery and then I read the description and I NEEDED this book in my life. First, I love Mexico; I always have since visiting as a baby and then again in......more

Goodreads review by Lupita

I absolutely loved the book cover. The plot itself is interesting and at times even a page turner. However I did encounter parts of the novel that slowed it down tremendously. I also found myself questioning the use of so many Mexican dichos (sayings). I understand the need to make the book feel cul......more

Goodreads review by Nikki

Not my cup of tea. I didn't like most of the characters --just greedy, lost souls. The cover was pretty though--and I obviously (and incorrectly) judged the book by it!......more

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