Marivi Soliven’s latest novel is a love story inspired by a 1935 murder case that took place in San Diego’s red-light district known as the Stingaree. In Taxi Dancer, we follow the story of the idealistic and romantic Eli Mata, who falls in love with the beautifully vulnerable Lucinda Lane, the red-haired star dancer at the Filipino-owned Rizal Dance Hall. Readers are drawn into a world that stretches from dusty asparagus fields to the steamy dance halls where men paid for the company—and dances—of taxi dancers
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