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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.

In the soothing darkness of her local theater, thirty-something teacher's aide and divorcée Teresina "Tere" Ávila looks straight into the smoldering eyes of Pedro Infante and wonders where her life has gone. The impossibly handsome Mexican singer and movie icon died in 1957, but to Tere -- secretary of the Pedro Infante fan club chapter 256 -- he remains an everlasting symbol of the possibility of passion beyond her New Mexico town. Tere's pas...

Comezón: It's more than an itch. It's a longstanding desire that will never be fulfilled. And, in this novel by award-winning author Denise Chávez, it is also a border town in New Mexico whose denizens' longings are as powerful as they are, all too often, impossible.

Rocio 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...

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.

The plays, written between 1986 and 1991, have been performed or read in theaters across the United States. They shatter myths and create a broader, freer space for women's cultural development.