Synopsis: "Rebecca Barrios, a well-off Miami Beach housewife... has decided to revive the old Cuban tradition of the tertulia, or women's get-together.... [She] hits upon the notion of a reading group. The book that las girlfriends finally settle upon is an obscure historical novel... Playing with Light. Oddly, as the friends read ever deeper into their chosen story, strange things begin to happen to them.... [T]he two worlds—the real and the fictional, the American and the Cuban, the living and the (supposedly) long-dead past—have begun to relentlessly intertwine in unsettling ways." (from the back cover)