Description
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 passions are wasted on Lucio, the married lover who plies her with sweet kisses and false promises. Comfort comes in her adoration for Infante and in the companionship of her best friend, Irma La Wirma Granados. Then, one night at the Border Cowboy Truck Stop, Tere is forced to confront reality -- and the choices she must make to reclaim her life.
Author: Denise Chavez
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Published: 03/19/2002
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.85d
ISBN13: 9780743445733
ISBN10: 0743445732
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Women
- Fiction | Hispanic & Latino
Tere's passions are wasted on Lucio, the married lover who plies her with sweet kisses and false promises. Comfort comes in her adoration for Infante and in the companionship of her best friend, Irma La Wirma Granados. Then, one night at the Border Cowboy Truck Stop, Tere is forced to confront reality -- and the choices she must make to reclaim her life.
Author: Denise Chavez
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Published: 03/19/2002
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.85d
ISBN13: 9780743445733
ISBN10: 0743445732
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Women
- Fiction | Hispanic & Latino
About the Author
Denise Chavez is the author of The Last of the Menu Girls and Face of an Angel, for which she won the American Book Award. She is a founder of the Border Book Festival in Las Cruces, New Mexico, where she lives