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Snake Hips
Belly Dancing and How I
found Love
by Anne Thomas Soffee (Paperback)
From Publishers Weekly
After being dumped by her loser boyfriend, Soffee, a "sober, nerdy, rock 'n'
rolling, coffee-drinking, school-teaching, erotica-reading, kitsch-loving
Lebanese American" moves back home to Richmond, Va., to wallow in self-pity.
There, she comes across a flier advertising the usual classes in yoga,
vegetarian cooking, ballroom dancing and... belly dancing. Her girlfriends think
she's lost her mind, but Soffee knows she's found the perfect distraction. Not
only does belly dancing have nothing to do with her ex, it's a fine way to
reconnect with her Lebanese roots. Plus, "it is a relief to be part of a
subculture where younger and thinner do not automatically equal better." Soffee
learns to roll her hips, shimmy and make her stomach poof out; spends wild
amounts of money on the tackiest costumes imaginable; and most satisfying
discovers the ultimate cool of "belly dancer bonding." Her ethnic high leads to
marital fantasies, e.g., being "third-favorite wife" to a young sheik she's
cyber-dating, although she admits "being obedient is easy on-line." She also has
flings with an insufferable Iraqi yuppie and a born-again Lebanese boy-next-door
all hilarious disasters. Soffee's women friends keep her from feeling too lousy
("[t]he good thing about girlfriends is they usually hate your exes before you
do") until Mr. Right catches her by surprise. While there is a lot of
information on the belly dancing culture, this is not a how-to book, although an
appendix lists resources for the interested. What Soffee's really offering is a
guide to mending a broken heart: embrace a totally distracting activity, bond
with your girlfriends and don't forget to laugh.
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
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Product Details
- Paperback: 266 pages
- Publisher: Chicago Review
Press (January 1, 2004)
- Language: English
- ISBN: 1556525222
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