A review by jefecarpenter
Telex from Cuba by Rachel Kushner

3.0

I so wanted to like this. And I did, at first. She invents a brilliant line of unpredictaable thoughts and actions that make insightful probes into a possibly predictable story. But then around halfway in, the detours aren't driving the story any more and the writer seems to be vamping, waiting for the drive to arrive.

It's an interesting finish, with several codas, and then the curtain call with Rachel K and Christian de la Maziére, but it would have been so much more if we had been driven to find out.