Lead Review

• Book: Bloody Miami
• Location: Miami
• Author: Tom Wolfe

“IN MIAMI, everybody hates everybody,” explains a Haitian woman in “Back To Blood”. Mr Wolfe set his last three novels -“The Bonfire of the Vanities”, “A Man in Full” and “I Am Charlotte Simmons”-in New York, Atlanta and an east-coast university campus. Now he targets Miami, where more than 50% of the residents are foreign-born, mostly Cuban, but also Haitian, Colombian, Nicaraguan and others-a city where the melting pot dear to American sentiment does not hold at all. Assimilation is reversed; Anglos, an endangered species, adopt Latin ways or turn immigrant themselves and flee up the coast. The Economist

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