"Not merely a marvelously lively and sympathetic memoir but also a resonant evocation of precisely what it's like to be young." --O, The Oprah Magazine "There is no clear course to the past but only a kind of dead reckoning. It is such reckoning that gives authenticity to Ms. Guillermoprieto's uneasy and fascinating account, and more than 30 years after the events, a pulsing sense of discovery." --The New York Times "One of the most astute and eloquent chroniclers of contemporary Latin America. Guillermoprieto's description of everyday life under the revolution is intimate and poignant, and also tough-minded and shrewd." --San Francisco Chronicle "Dancing with Cuba is about falling in love with this mythic place or, more precisely, trying to. A sympathetic yet ultimately unsparing account of a personal odyssey that ends not triumphantly but nonetheless extraordinarily.

" --The Nation "A pleasure to read, full of humanity, sly humor, curiosity and knowledge." -Katha Pollitt, The New York Times Book Review "Written with the deftness that has made Guillermoprieto's dispatches in The New Yorker some of the best writing on Latin America, Dancing with Cuba makes a significant contribution to the in-depth understanding of contemporary Cuba." -The Miami Herald "Few dancers write memoirs, and so the world of dance remains an elegant mystery to many of us… This is a tale, then, of artists and poets, dancers and architects - bewildered, always in conflict, trying to keep alive standards which they knew were essential, but which were also suspect, not to say dangerous." -Doris Lessing, The New York Observer "An honest memoir filled with the struggles most young people wrestle with: love, identity and idealism." -USA Today "The memoir's greatest strength is its ability to infect the reader with the feverish, hopeful and heartbreaking sense of the early days of the revolution." -Elle "As much a pleasure as an astonishment." - Harper's "Written with dignity and without rhetoric or undue emotion: when this author flays her feelings, it's because she is utterly alive with protest." -Kirkus Reviews "Guillermoprieto is one of the most perceptive commentators on Latin America, a writer whose political analysis is sensitive to culture and history and punctuated by telling details that illuminate larger dilemmas.

This bittersweet remembrance of youthful hopes and disillusionment, of the contrast between the idealism of revolutionary aspirations and the clay feet of day-to-day revolutionaries, is set against the story of six months she spent in Cuba as a dance teacher in 1970…this marvelous book is almost impossible to put down." -Foreign Affairs "Gracefully told.splendidly rendered into English by Esther Allen." - Los Angeles Times Book Review "A vivid chronicle." -The Boston Globe "In exploring her own evolving relationship to art and politics…[Guillermoprieto] proposes a genuinely original take on history. To the traditional discussion of events and ideologies she adds psychology, rhetorical analysis, and, most provocatively, ideas about how one's physical body participates in the experience of cultural identity." -Sarah Kerr, The New York Review of Books " [A] beautifully written novelistic memoir." San Antonio Express-News "A compelling look back - from the safe wisdom of mi.