Last in a long line of long-suffering women, once-divorced, once-widowed Soveida Dosamantes reflects on her 30 years as a waitress at the El Farol Mexican restaurant. Looking back, she hears a rich chorus of Latino voices whose touching, funny and sage advice shows her how to celebrate her true love and her true self.
THE LAST OF THE MENU GIRLS is comprised of seven interrelated stories that, through shifting narrative voices, define the protagonist, Rocio Esquibel, as she takes stock of her family and society. An acute awareness of accent, tone and dialect enliven characters rarely depicted in fiction: janitors, gardeners and nurse's aides.
Teresina Avila is a divorced, thirty-something Chicana working in Cabritoville, New Mexico. Her lover will never leave his wife and ties Tere's heart in knots. Her diversions center around her best friend, Irma, and her membership in the Pedro Infante Fan Club. A hilarious and heartrending story about the fictions women weave to justify loving the ...
The six plays in Shattering the Myth represent something quite recent to contemporary American literature: the Hispanic female voice. The plays, written between the years 1986 and 1991, have been performed or read in theaters across the United States. Questioned in the six plays are the traditions so deeply rooted in the familial culture of which ...
American Book Award-winning author Chavez's delicious new novel features an unforgettable heroine obsessed with a legendary screen idol. Pedro Infante makes Mejicana women sigh--and gives Tere Avila the dreamy ideal against which she measures the all-too-real men in her life.
Acclaimed author/actress Denise Chavez explores the history, lore, and preparation of tacos--and other art forms--in a warm and exuberant memoir, with recipes. "Tacos are sacred to me," writes Chavez, who's set many a fictional scene in a Southwestern restaurant or around a dinner table. And here are her special recipes, including her mother's ...
Alive with the taste of tamales and the lyrical tang of the Esquibels' talk, "The Last of the Menu Girls" becomes a rich celebration of Chicano culture, and a universal story of finding one's way in the world.
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