Desert Blood: The Juarez Murders8 reviews Alicia Gaspar De Alba Arte Publico Press, 2005 Horrifying and Wonderful At the Same Time + A story that needs to be told + A MUST READ + Good!!!             Rain God6 reviews Arturo Islas Harper Perennial, 1991 The Great American Novel + Outcasts struggling to live with dignity + Complexity of an El Pasoan explained + Beautiful, Poetic, Intense             Loving Pedro Infante10 reviews Denise Chavez Washington Square Press, 2002 Loving Pedro Infante: Amor sin pelos en la lengua + Too Hard To Put Down + Loving Pedro Infante AND Denise Chavez 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. 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This desperate query-which is never answered-is the fantasma ...             La maravilla16 reviews Alfredo Vea Plume, 1994 La Maravilla is a "Marvel!" + A magical and moving tale + One of My Very Favorites + A few comments             Crossing Vines: A Novel (Chicana & Chicano Visions of the Americas, V. 2)1 review Rigoberto Gonzalez University of Oklahoma Press, 2003 A Poetic, Powerful First Novel If you were unfamiliar with Rigoberto Gonzalez, it wouldn't take many pages of reading his first novel, "Crossing Vines," to suspect that his prior book was one of poetry, not prose. Each sentence, every paragraph, all chapters possess the clarity and music of poetry even in recounting the often ...             The Devil's Highway: A True Story36 reviews Luis Alberto Urrea Back Bay Books, 2005 A MUST read for every American + heartbreaking + Devils Highway + Wow! + The Devil's Highway             Zigzagger: Stories (Latino Voices)4 reviews Manuel Munoz Northwestern University Press, 2003 Not your average Chicano literature..more like Human Lit + Zigzagger: Stories (Latino Voices) + A powerful, yet damaged, voice + Taking Chicano/Latino Literature to New Heights             Let Their Spirits Dance: A Novel9 reviews Stella Pope Duarte Harper Perennial, 2003 Score one for the teacher!!! + Great for the spirit + So moving... + A story of one family's involvement in the Vietnam War + Well-Done Debut Novel             Desert Blood: The Juarez Murders8 reviews Alicia Gaspar De Alba Arte Publico Press, 2005 Horrifying and Wonderful At the Same Time + A story that needs to be told + A MUST READ + Good!!!             Zigzagger: Stories (Latino Voices)4 reviews Manuel Munoz Northwestern University Press, 2003 Not your average Chicano literature..more like Human Lit + Zigzagger: Stories (Latino Voices) + A powerful, yet damaged, voice + Taking Chicano/Latino Literature to New Heights             La maravilla16 reviews Alfredo Vea Plume, 1994 La Maravilla is a "Marvel!" + A magical and moving tale + One of My Very Favorites + A few comments             Loving Pedro Infante10 reviews Denise Chavez Washington Square Press, 2002 Loving Pedro Infante: Amor sin pelos en la lengua + Too Hard To Put Down + Loving Pedro Infante AND Denise Chavez 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 ...             The Devil's Highway: A True Story36 reviews Luis Alberto Urrea Back Bay Books, 2005 A MUST read for every American + heartbreaking + Devils Highway + Wow! + The Devil's Highway             Rain God6 reviews Arturo Islas Harper Perennial, 1991 The Great American Novel + Outcasts struggling to live with dignity + Complexity of an El Pasoan explained + Beautiful, Poetic, Intense             Let Their Spirits Dance: A Novel9 reviews Stella Pope Duarte Harper Perennial, 2003 Score one for the teacher!!! + Great for the spirit + So moving... + A story of one family's involvement in the Vietnam War + Well-Done Debut Novel             Pity the Drowned Horses (Andres Montoya Poetry Prize)1 review Sheryl Luna University of Notre Dame Press, 2005 A Richly Textured Debut Collection In one of the last poems of Pity the Drowned Horses, Sheryl Luna's richly textured debut collection, the narrator in "Las Alas" asks: "Can one return to a desolate / past, before one knew one was poor, / before the luxurious perfume?" This desperate query-which is never answered-is the fantasma ...             Crossing Vines: A Novel (Chicana & Chicano Visions of the Americas, V. 2)1 review Rigoberto Gonzalez University of Oklahoma Press, 2003 A Poetic, Powerful First Novel If you were unfamiliar with Rigoberto Gonzalez, it wouldn't take many pages of reading his first novel, "Crossing Vines," to suspect that his prior book was one of poetry, not prose. Each sentence, every paragraph, all chapters possess the clarity and music of poetry even in recounting the often ...