{"title":"Denise Chávez","description":"Denise Chávez is the author of Loving Pedro Infante and Face of an Angel, which won the American Book Award. She is the recipient of a Lila Acheson Wallace\/Reader's Digest Fund Writer's Award and a founder of the Border Book Festival in Las Cruces, New Mexico, where she lives with her husband, Daniel Zolinsky.","products":[{"product_id":"the-last-of-the-menu-girls-paperback","title":"The Last of the Menu Girls - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eRoc o Esquibel is a girl growing up in a Southern New Mexico town with her mother and sister. She defines her neighborhood by its trees--the willow, the apricot and the one they call the marking-off tree. Rocio knows she was born in the closet where she and her sister now take turns looking at the picture of Jesus whose eyes light up in the dark. But at night she enters a magical realm, and in her imaginary Blue Room, she can fly. At first she is a mesmerized observer of the lives of older girls and their boyfriends, but as she finds a job at the local hospital, and discovers a passion for drama and stories, Rocio begins to make her own choices in love and work. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlive with the taste of tamales and the lyrical tang of the Esquibels' talk, \u003cb\u003eThe Last of the Menu Girls\u003c\/b\u003e becomes a rich celebration of Chicano culture, and a universal story of finding one's way in the world.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRocio Esquibel is a girl growing up in a Southern New Mexico town with her mother and sister. She defines her neighborhood by its trees--the willow, the apricot and the one they call the marking-off tree. Rocio knows she was born in the closet where she and her sister now take turns looking at the picture of Jesus whose eyes light up in the dark. 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At first she is a mesmerized observer of the lives of older girls and their boyfriends, but as she finds a job at the local hospital, and discovers a passion for drama and stories, Rocio begins to make her own choices in love and work. \u003cbr\u003eAlive 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50104794874079,"sku":"9781400034314","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/HeFC0qHe999781400034314.webp?v=1781111334"},{"product_id":"street-of-too-many-stories-paperback","title":"Street of Too Many Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"In \u003cem\u003eStreet of Too Many Stories\u003c\/em\u003e, Denise Chávez has created a magical place populated by four families. From the street itself, filled with spirits who dance and visit homes, to the mothers, fathers, and children who stay there their entire lives or leave and return, to those who hold on to hope or whose dreams are crushed, Encantada Street is a microcosm of the pain, love, dysfunction, and hope that is humanity. This is a border story that reveals the nuances of living in 'that liminal space of challenge and hope.' You will not want to stop reading.\"\u003c\/p\u003eDr. Yolanda Chávez LeyvaDirector, Institute of Oral History \u0026amp; Associate Professor, The University of Texas at El Paso \u003cbr\u003e\"A street seems like a simple thing. But this novel shows it is so much more. It's the lives that fill its nooks and crannies and open vistas. The spaces echoing with words said and unsaid, of dreams won and lost. Of the worlds that circulate between walls and across doorsteps. The joys and sorrows that whistle through the four directions, and the quirks and refinements that smooth the edges of what is left behind. Chávez has written a beautiful work of fiction, and a must read.\"\u003cp\u003eDr. Roberta Hurtado\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAssociate Professor of Latina\/e\/o\/x Literature and Culture, State University of New York Oswego\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Denise Chávez's new novel, \u003cem\u003eStreet of Too Many Stories\u003c\/em\u003e, is an expansive yet richly intimate tale about the inhabitants of a New Mexican calle. In doing so, Chávez embraces the losses, dreams, and secrets of the border and its peoples, of the complex destinies set in motion by place.A sensory feast!\"Cristina GarcíaAuthor of \u003cem\u003eVanishing Maps\u003c\/em\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50104816271583,"sku":"9781961794009","price":25.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/KWtOu_UjmK9781961794009.webp?v=1781111378"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/denise-chavez.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}