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Dancing with the Tiger
Lili Wright
Marian Wood Books/Putnam
July 2016
On Sale: July 12, 2016
Featuring: Anna Ramsey
464 pages
ISBN: 0399175172
EAN: 9780399175176
Hardcover
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Mystery | Thriller
When 30-year-old Anna Ramsey learns that a meth-addicted looter has dug up what
might be the funerary mask of Montezuma, she books the next flight to Oaxaca.
Determined to redeem her father, a discredited art collector, and to one-up her
unfaithful fiancé, a museum curator, Anna hurls herself headlong into Mexico’s
underground art world. But others are chasing the treasure as well: the shape-
shifting drug lord no one can really describe; the enigmatic American expat, who
keeps his art collection locked in a chapel; the former museum director who
traffics stolen works, and his housekeeper—deeply religious, a gay woman in a
culture of machismo, dependent on a patron she loathes; the painter Salvador on
his motorcycle, complex, sensual—but with secrets of his own.
Anna soon realizes that everyone is masked—some literally, others metaphorically.
Indeed, Dancing with the Tiger is a splendid reminder that throughout human
history, cultures have revered masks: whether in the theater or in war, for
religious purposes, or to conceal identity, masks are as universal as our desire
to transform ourselves, to change. Anna, without an ounce of self-pity despite
traumatic losses, stands out as a heroine for our times as, traveling alone, she
finds the courage to show her true face.
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