Tango Book Launch Party

Camille Cusumano August 25th, 2008

You’re invited to come eat, dance, play, and celebrate the publication of Tango, an Argentine Love Story by Camille Cusumano

Sunday, October 12, 2008, 1 p.m to 4 p.m.

at the MUSEO ITALOAMERICANO,

Fort Mason Center, Building C, San Francisco
(415) 673-2200
sfmuseo@sbcglobal.net

A Tango Party

Writer Camille Cusumano will read from her latest book, Tango, an Argentine Love Story

In honor of the fact that Museo ItaloAmericano has offered to host the launch of her travel memoir, the author will talk briefly about how Italians put the go in Tango. Most seasoned travelers know that Buenos Aires is more Italian than anything else. But did you know that the most esteemed tango composers—DiSarli, D’Agostino, D’Arienzo, Biagi, Piazzola, Pugliese, to name but a few—whose music is played even today, were Italian?

Watch tango demos by well-known local tango dancers from the troupe, Libertango. Dance or just watch and listen to tango music from the Golden Era and contemporary composers. There’ll be refreshments and many literati, all in a beautiful venue on the San Francisco Bay, the Museo ItaloAmericano. View its latest exhibition for free while there (donations welcome).

Parking is easy and cheap in the Fort Mason lot.

The author wishes to express her deepest gratitude to the MUSEO ITALOAMERICANO, not only for its superb artistic and cultural contributions to the community, but for its continued support of her literary efforts. In 2000, the Museo hosted a huge book party for her first novel, The Last Cannoli, serving—what else?—several hundred cannoli and wine to the many satisfied patrons in attendance.

Click here for directions and to learn more about the Museo ItaloAmericano.

Praise for Tango

(Click on the names of these esteemed authors to learn more about them at their Web sites.)

“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

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