RACHEL KUSHNER
Tuesday, July 15 at 7:30 p.m.

Los Angeles-based art critic (Art Forum) and writer Rachel Kushner has written a wondrous debut novel, Telex from Cuba (Scribner), for which she makes this welcome first visit tonight. "As a portrait of 1950s Cuba, this novel is a departure form most others of its kind. Emphatically American in its point of view and story, Telex from Cuba offers a glimpse of how American executives and their families lived in Cuba during that crucial epoch of change and, as such, will offer readers a refreshingly eye-opening account of what went on behind the corporate scenes and in the back rooms of power." - Oscar Hijuelos. "Telex from Cuba is a prodigious work, sparking into life throughout its pages, beautifully balanced in its views of plantation society and the revolutionary force that ultimately overthrows it, written without bombast or self-referring language, as if the writer is so intent on the people she portrays, she writes of them with a kind of rare innocence, the innocence of the true observer who submits to the power of the tale she tells." - Paula Fox.

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