Gypsy Flamenco

In Gypsy Flamenco, author de Leon takes the reader on a most improbable journey as Dolore, a fifties-something dancer from Marin County, decides she must learn flamenco dance from the best and most authentic - Pio Mateo Mendoza - a Gypsy flamenco dancer in Seville, Spain. De Leon unfolds her cast of anachronistic characters with a mix of spot-on humor, compassion, and utterly graceful prose. You will hear and feel the rhythms of flamenco as you lose yourself in Dolore's year among the Gypsies. Here is a writer at the absolute height of her craft.