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Books: Camille Cusumano's "Tango, an Argentine Love Story"
Published on Oct 1, 2008 - 7:36:00 AM
By: Camille Cusumano
Sept. 30, 2008 - Camille Cusumano is a writer who dances tango. "Tango, an Argentine Love Story" is a travel memoir of an eventful year and a half in Buenos Aires practicing tango and Zen. The book is available in October, 2008, from Seal Press.
"Tango is a remarkable addition to contemporary dharma literature. It reads like a thriller, a romance, and above all it shows the redemptive potential of a sincere spiritual practice."
- Sylvia Boorstein, PhD, author of Happiness Is an Inside Job
"Camille Cusumano has lived out many a mid-life woman's fantasy: packing her bags, slit skirts, and tango shoes and spending a year in Argentina. The result is a memoir that is like the dance itself: smooth, absorbing, and erotically charged."
- Laura Fraser, author of An Italian Affair
"The transformative power of the tango embrace beautifully captured. Bravo!"
- Marina Palmer, author of Kiss & Tango
Cusumano has written on food, fitness, and travel for more than 20 years, and recently on dance and yoga. She was a staff editor at VIA Magazine, the AAA Northern California travel publication for 17 years.
Her work has appeared in many publications, including Islands, Country Living, the San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor, the New York Times, Yoga Journal, and the Washington Post.
Her cookbook credits include The New Foods (Henry Holt), America Loves Salads (Literary Guild), Rodale's Basic Natural Foods Cookbook (co-written with Carol Munson, Editor Charles Gerras), and Tofu, Tempeh, and Other Soy Delights (Rodale).
Her novel, The Last Cannoli (Legas, 2000) was inspired by her growing up in a large Sicilian American family. The book, wrote former San Francisco Poet Laureate Lawrence Ferlinghetti, "attests to the power of storytelling to hold life together through all its diasporas."
Her short story Plot Theory, was published in the 2006 summer issue of the North American Review, America's oldest literary journal, upon winning third place in the annual Kurt Vonnegut fiction contest.
She has contributed essays to travel anthologies and is the editor of the anthology series: France, a Love Story, Italy, a Love Story, Mexico, a Love Story, and Greece, a Love Story, all published by Seal Press, Emeryville, Calif.
You can find "Tango" at Amazon.com, Borders, and many other fine book stores. For information on book signings go to www.camillecusumano.com
Watch a short video she made in Buenos Aires with Martin Jacovella, Tango Around the World.
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