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Lolcats. Salsa dancing. Unrequited love. Tom Crosshills smart and witty debut teen novel treads a colorful coming-of-age journey from New York City to Havana that will appeal to fans of books by Matthew Quick and Junot Díaz.When Rick Gutiérrez - known as "That Cat Guy" at school - gets dumped on his sixteenth birthday for uploading cat videos from his bedroom instead of experiencing the real world, he realizes its time for a change. So Rick joins a salsa class . . . because of a girl, of course. Ana Cabrera is smart, friendly, and smooth on the dance floor. He might be half Cuban, but Rick dances like a drunk hippo. Desperate to impress Ana, he invites her to spend the summer in Havana. The official reason: learning to dance. The hidden agenda: romance under the palm trees.Except Cuba isnt all sun, salsa, and music. As Rick and Ana meet his family and investigate the reason why his mother left Cuba decades ago, they learn that politics isnt just something that happens to other people. And when they find romance, its got sharp edges.



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Tom Crosshill

Tom Crosshill's fiction has been nominated for the Nebula Award (thrice) , the Latvian Literature Award, and the WSFA Small Press Award. He is a winner of the ESFS Award for Best Author. He is the author of the YA novel "The Cat King of Havana" (Katherine Tegen Books) and the literary novel "The Cattle Express" (Shirtsleeve Press) . His works are available in ten languages. After many years spent in Oregon and New York, he currently lives in his native Latvia. He's a satellite member of the writers' group Altered Fluid. In the past, he has operated a nuclear reactor, translated books and worked in a zinc mine, among other things.



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