Missteps mar 'Mambo in Chinatown' Both novels include a romance involving an improbably perfect, cardboard cutout of a man; in "Mambo" he is both a gardener and a boxer, in a paint-by-numbers bid for a guy who can be tough but also sensitive. But before it was hijacked by its formulaic … Read more on

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