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Writing Down the River: Into the Heart of the Grand Canyon

6 reviews
Leila Philip

Grand Canyon Association, 2004

I Did It All in the Grand Canyon
Very good reading, with excellent comments on the Grand Canyon, the experiences of rafting the river and essays on how the canyon touches people in different ways. I have just completed an 8 day trip of over 280 miles in the canyon and experienced every emotion and awe-inspiring moment described in the book. The photographs are worth the purchase price alone. A must read before and after ...

Loving Pedro Infante

10 reviews
Denise Chavez

Washington Square Press, 2002

Loving Pedro Infante: Amor sin pelos en la lengua
In love with Lucio, a married man who can't or won't love her back, Teresina "La Tere" Ávila, a thirty-something teacher's aide and secretary of the Pedro Infante Fan Club #256 in dusty Cabritoville, NM, escapes into the world of Infante. So she tells it in Denise Chavez's Loving Pedro Infante, a witty and insightful look at the difference between fantasy and reality. As she unravels her ...

A Taco Testimony: Meditations on Family, Food and Culture

6 reviews
Denise Chavez

Rio Nuevo, 2006

A Taco Testimony: Meditations on Family, Food and Culture
It's so very true that you never really value what you have until it's gone. Such is the tone of A Taco Testimony. Like many of us, much of the author's life was spent wanting to get away from her small hometown and well away from her family. She wanted a life of her own where she could define who she wanted to be and where she could be a shining star. Fortunately, as being part of a family ...

Face of an Angel

10 reviews
Denise Chavez

Grand Central Publishing, 1995

A Great Book to Read
With school and all in the way, I manage to find time to read the book during bus rides. This is a beautifully written story about the Mexican-American women who struggle with thier identity and themselves. Soveida Dosamantes, the narrator of the book, daughter of Dolores and granddaughter of Mama Lupita, is an independent twice married woman working as a waitress at a restaurant runned by a ...

Face of an Angel A Novel by Denise Chavez
Denise Chavez

Farrar Straus Giroux, 1994

This Farrar Straus Giroux paperback creates a world of passion and humor, of love and death, of spirit and flesh.

The Last of the Menu Girls

3 reviews
Denise Chavez

Vintage, 2004

powerful memories
I read this book when it first came out and shortly after meeting Ms. Chavez, and have since re-read it at least a dozen times. Each time I find myself transported back to my childhood. The images Chavez creates evoke cultural memories that I am only now able to understand and appreciate. For anyone who wants to explore cultural identity, The Last of the Menu Girls is a perfect starting place.

Ramona (Modern Library Classics)

21 reviews
Helen Hunt Jackson

Modern Library, 2005

"Now the Hacienda's Dark, the Town is Sleeping"
It has been a long time since I first read this book, but the subject matter will be around for a long time to come. Bewitching love story for which at least one beautiful song has been written, "Ramona" and possibly "Vaya Con Dios". It is a love story, one whose emotion most of us will recognize; another time, another place, from our own Spring Time; woven skillfully into cultural ...

La última de las muchachas del menú
Denise Chavez

Vintage, 2005

Rocío Esquibel pasa su niñez y su juventud en un pueblo al sur de Nuevo México con su mamá y su hermana. Ella define al vecindario por sus árboles: el Sauce, el Árbol de Chabacano y aquél que llaman el Árbol Divisorio. Rocío cree que nació en el clóset donde ella y su hermana se turnan para ver el retrato de Jesús, cuyos ojos se iluminan en la oscuridad. Pero por la noche incurre en un terreno mágico y dentro de su Cuarto Azul imaginario, ella ...

Shattering the Myth: Plays by Hispanic Women

2 reviews
Denise Chavez

Arte Publico Press, 1992

It's an important book for Chicano/Latino theater students.
This is an anthology of plays by six Latina playwrights: Cherrie Moraga, Migdalia Cruz, Caridad Svich, Josefina Lopez, Edit Villarreal, and Diana Saenz. It is a must-have reference book, especially for anyone studying Chicano theater specifically. Moraga is a high-profile academic who is not only a prominent voice for Chicanas but for lesbians of color. Here you will find her script for ...

Chicana Ways: Conversations With Ten Chicana Writers

University of Nevada Press, 2001

During the past two decades, literary issues such as multiculturalism, gender, borders and border crossing, and the development of personal, cultural, and alternative identities have become increasingly important. The same years have seen the flourishing of writers from a number of ethnic minorities, including the Mexican-American women who are the subjects of these probing and insightful interviews by Karin Rosa Ikas. The interviews, which ...

What It Is... What It Was!; The Black Film Explosion of the '70s in Words and Pictures

8 reviews
Andres Chavez, Denise Chavez, ...

Miramax Books, 1998

YOU BETTER GET THIS BOOK...!
Great book about the 70's black movies. I thought I seen them all but this book talked about movies I did'nt know about but would like to see, if I could just find all the videos! The art work alone is worth the price of the book! If you plan or get invited to a 70's party use this book as a guide to get that true afropicking,bellbottom,platform shoe wearing look.

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