Denise Chavez
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
Comezn̤: 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 Chv̀ez, it is also a border town in New Mexico whose denizens' longings are as powerful as they are, all too often, impossible.
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Contemporaries
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
xvi, 220 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Rocío 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...