Dance Me a Revolution

Set in the lofty Andes mountains, Dance Me a Revolution follows tour guide Rosa Amaru as she struggles to reconcile her intense longing for the revolution that could return the Incas to power with the reality of Peruvian life for Andean peasants in the 1970/80s. While still a captive of her troubled past, she must lead Canadian videographer Kelly Davis and American coastguard Tony Comeau through the wild beauty of her colonized homeland for her family's tour company. But this is to be no popular tourist trek to Machu Picchu—instead it threatens to destroy Rosa, her family, and the trekkers' lives, as together they dance their way through a world of shifting morals and identities. Mother Leocadia, Uncle Pedro, and Rosa's son Carlos all play important roles in the family company, Tur Mayutambo while Commander Bolivar, leader of The Forces of Fire/Las Fuerzas del Fuego terrorist group tries to keep his revolution on course. An adult literary novel, Dance Me a Revolution may be seen as a cross between The Poisonwood Bible and a more realistically-violent Bel Canto, with a touch of travelogue thrown in.