01304cam a2200289 4500 142891688 TxAuBib 20130816120000.0 041117s2005||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2004063407 9780060721749 $23.95 006072174X $23.95 TxAuBib Wixon, Lisa. Dirty blonde and half Cuban : a novel / Lisa Wixon. 1st ed. New York : Harper Collins Publishers, 2005. 246 p. ; 24 cm. The setting is communist Cuba, and the heroine-narrator is an upper-class, Washington, D.C.-based American named Alysia Vilar. While Alysia's mother lies dying, she reveals a secret that shakes her daughter to the core: her real father is a man named Jose Antonio, a former Cuban translator with whom she had an affair. This propels Alysia into a remarkable odyssey, as she navigates the rich yet seedy culture of Havana, Cuba. 20130816. Young women Fiction. Fathers and daughters Fiction. Americans Cuba Fiction. Birthfathers Fiction. Prostitutes Fiction. Havana (Cuba) Fiction.