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Around the Bloc
Stephanie Elizondo Griest
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Desperate to escape South Texas, Stephanie Elizondo Griest dreamed of becoming a foreign correspondent. So she headed to Russia looking for some excitement¿commencing what would become a four-year, twelve-nation Communist bloc tour that shattered her preconceived notions of the ¿Evil Empire.¿
In Around the Bloc, Griest relates her experiences as a volunteer at a children¿s shelter in Moscow, a propaganda polisher at the office of the Chinese Communist Party¿s English-language mouthpiece in Beijing, and a belly dancer among the rumba queens of Havana. She falls in love with an ex-soldier who narrowly avoided radiation cleanup duties at Chernobyl, hangs out with Cuban hip-hop artists, and comes to difficult realizations about the meaning of democracy.
is the absorbing story of a young journalist driven by a desire to witness the effects of Communism. Along the way, she learns the Russian mathematical equation for buying dinner-party vodka (one bottle per guest, plus an extra), stumbles upon Beijing¿s underground gay scene, marches with 100,000 mothers demanding Elián González¿s return to Cuba, and gains a new appreciation for the Mexican culture she left behind.
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