Discover Gringa in a Strange Land in January 2010!

Added: (Mon Jan 04 2010)

Pressbox (Press Release) - Join author Linda Dahl on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book Promotion Public Relations as she travels the blogosphere in January to talk about her latest novel release, “Gringa in a Strange Land”.

Gringa in a Strange Land brings back the exhilarating and confusing time of the “counterculture” in the early 1970’s. Erica Mason, an American woman living in Mexico, is torn between working to become an artist and the lure of the drug culture. Set mostly in the colonial city of Merida in the Yucatan peninsula, the story also moves among Mayan ruins, laid-back beaches and the cities of Belize and Oaxaca. A host of bohemian expats and Mexicans, and the complex character of Mexico itself, infuse this portrait-of-the-artist-as-a-young-American, culminating in an unexpected resolution.

Praise for “Gringa in a Strange Land”:

“Like the artisans who applied kaleidoscopic colors to the Mayan pyramids, Linda Dahl paints a vivid portrait of a young American artist who thrusts herself into the exotic maelstrom of Mexico in the ‘70’s, on a drug-, booze- and sex-suffused odyssey – a struggle to create art, find herself and seek love – amid the hippies and the druggies, the ordinary folk, the grifters and the adventurers all crossing paths in Mérida and Oaxaca. You’ll think of Robert Stone’s work and Babet Schroeder’s film More in that the novel so adeptly renders an era, a country and a state of mind.” -- Randolph Hogan, Former editor of the New York Times Book Review and translator of Gabriel Gárcia Márquez’s The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor

Linda Dahl has always loved to write about characters, usually edgy, little-known folks with wonderful stories and talents. She love places, too, and music, above all jazz. As a girl, she dreamed of traveling around the world and as soon as she could, she took to the road. She was fortunate to live and work in a number of Latin American countries.

Finding the requisite cheap, shabby apartment (you could still do so in those days) back in New York, she started writing in earnest. She managed also to produce novels, biographies and essays about women in jazz, and quirky travel articles about such topics as the Carmen Miranda Museum in Rio, a priestess of Candomble, a.k.a. voodoo (interview in rudimentary Portuguese), and a Mayan folk healer.

She is happy to say that most of her writing efforts have been published, well-reviewed and are still in print. Her latest novel, a love-child, is “Gringa in a Strange Land,” available in January 2010.

If you would like to follow Linda on her virtual book tour, visit the official Pump Up Your Book Promotion Virtual Book Tour page at http://pumpupyourbook.com/. You can also visit her website at http://lindadahl.com.

Linda’s virtual book tour is brought to you by Pump Up Your Book Promotion Virtual Book Tours, a virtual book tour agency for authors who want quality service for an affordable price. More information can be found on their website at http://www.pumpupyourbookpromotion.com.