Sirena Selena: A Novel

From the author of Urban Oracles comes Mayra Santos-Febress Sirena Selena: somewhere between The Blue Angel and Kiss of the Spider Woman rises the legend of Sirena Selena the diva-siren of the Caribbean whose boleros seduce and torment whoever dares listen.Discovered by Martha Divine in the backstreets of San Juan picking over garbage drugged out of his mind and singing boleros that transfix the listener a fifteen year old hustler is transformed into Sirena Selena a diva whose uncanny beauty and irrisistable voice will be their ticket to fame and fortune. Auditioning for one of the luxury hotels in the Dominican Republic Selena casts her spell over Hugo Graubel one of the hotels rich investors. Graubel is a powerful man in the Republic married with children. Silena determined to escape the poverty and abuse s/he suffered as a child engages Graubel in a long seduction in this mordant intensely lyrical tragi-comedy - part masque part cabaret - about identity (class race gender) and the hunger and desire to be other things.