Playing with Light

Synopsis

"Rebecca Barrios, a well-off Miami Beach housewife... has decided to revive the old Cuban tradition of the tertulia , or women's get-together.... [She] hits upon the notion of a reading group. The book that las girlfriends finally settle upon is an obscure historical novel... Playing with Light . Oddly, as the friends read ever deeper into their chosen story, strange things begin to happen to them.... [T]he two worlds—the real and the fictional, the American and the Cuban, the living and the (supposedly) long-dead past—have begun to relentlessly intertwine in unsettling ways." (from the back cover)