Fiction. A sardonic, sexy first novel from the acclaimed Cuban American author Gustavo Perez Firmat. The conflicted protagonist may remind some readers of Peter Tarnopol in Philip Roth's My Life As a Man, and others of Bob Slocum in Joseph Heller's Something Happened, but Perez Firmat has imbued this deft fiction debut with a Cuban American flavor all his own. He is skilled at evoking the richness of a world where humor eases hardship -- The New Yorker.