Background
Rivera, Beatriz was born on September 27, 1957 in Havana. Daughter of Mario Loernzo and Aida (Rufin) Rivera. came to United States, 1960.
(Rebecca Barrios, a well-to-do Miami housewife (and she ha...)
Rebecca Barrios, a well-to-do Miami housewife (and she hates being called that, by the way), has decided to revive the old Cuban tradition of the tertulia - a women's get-together. Buying some beautiful white wicker rocking chairs for her porch is the easy part. Convincing old friends to congregate from all over town every Friday is more difficult, until the resourceful Becky hits upon the idea of a reading group. The book that las girlfriends finally settle upon is an obscure historical novel set in nineteenth-century Havana. Its title? PLAYING WITH LIGHT. Oddly, as the friends progress ever deeper into the story, strange things begin to happen to them, one by one . . . Two worlds - the fictional and the real, the American and the Cuban, the living present and the (supposedly) dead past - begin to intertwine in unsettling ways. As what once seemed a light-hearted, even comic, fantasy builds slowly to a powerful and disturbing climax, Rebecca Barrios can't help but wonder what kind of story they've all gotten themselves into.
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(Meet Trish Izquierdo, a YUCA (Young Urban Cuban American)...)
Meet Trish Izquierdo, a YUCA (Young Urban Cuban American) living in the sleepy town of West Echeverria, New Jersey - a place where meeting for midnight sandwiches at the local eatery, the Mariposa Express, is a high point in the area's social activity. Trish decides at last to make something of her less than lively hometown - even if she has to invent, steal, and re-create history to do so.
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(A series of strong-minded women relentlessly pursue love ...)
A series of strong-minded women relentlessly pursue love and at times material success, as they move in and out of the reality of the New Jersey Hispanic barrio that bonds them in this landmark collection of stories. Passion, obsession, raucous humor and satire are in store for the reader of this tour-de-force examination of Hispanic womanhood.
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Rivera, Beatriz was born on September 27, 1957 in Havana. Daughter of Mario Loernzo and Aida (Rufin) Rivera. came to United States, 1960.
General Academic Studies Degree, Paris IV Sorbonne, 1975. License, Paris IV Sorbonne, 1977. Master, Paris IV Sorbonne, 1979.
Diploma of Advanced Studies, Paris III Sorbonne, 1996. Doctor of Philosophy, City University of New York, 2002.
Newspaper correspondent The Daily Freeman, Kingston, New York. Reporter The Jersey Journal, Jersey City. Correspondent The Poughkeepsie (New York ) Journal.
Adjustment lecturer Fordham University, New York City, since 1997, Borough Manhattan Community College, New York City, Dutchess County Community College. Teacher Poughkeepsie Day School, 2001—2002. Assistant professor Pennsylvania State University.
(Meet Trish Izquierdo, a YUCA (Young Urban Cuban American)...)
(A series of strong-minded women relentlessly pursue love ...)
(Rebecca Barrios, a well-to-do Miami housewife (and she ha...)
Married Denis Beneich, October, 1986 (divorced September 1987). Married Charles South Carolina. Barnes, June 21, 1988.
Children: Nigel Barnes, Rebecca Barnes.