Playing With Light A Novel Author:Beatriz Rivera Rebecca Barrios, a well-to-do Miami housewife (and she hates being called that, by the way), has decided to revive the old Cuban tradition of the tertulia - a women's get-together. Buying some beautiful white wicker rocking chairs for her porch is the easy part. Convincing old friends to congregate from all over town every Friday is more diffic... more »ult, until the resourceful Becky hits upon the idea of a reading group. The book that las girlfriends finally settle upon is an obscure historical novel set in nineteenth-century Havana. Its title? PLAYING WITH LIGHT. Oddly, as the friends progress ever deeper into the story, strange things begin to happen to them, one by one . . . Two worlds - the fictional and the real, the American and the Cuban, the living present and the (supposedly) dead past - begin to intertwine in unsettling ways. As what once seemed a light-hearted, even comic, fantasy builds slowly to a powerful and disturbing climax, Rebecca Barrios can't help but wonder what kind of story they've all gotten themselves into.« less