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Face of an angel. A waitress writes a handbook on waiting at tables. It is called The Book of Service and is based on her 30-year career in a Mexican restaurant in the southwest of the country.
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Denise Chavez's skillful and evocative Face the past and present of the women of the area of an Angel (1994) examines the inequitable through the life story of the main character and discomfiting, yet somehow powerful, place Soveida Dosamantes (born in 1948).
This 1994 novel by Denise Chávez tells the story of a woman’s coming of age; that is, it portrays a woman in the process of coming into awareness and full possession of her body, intellect, and soul.
- Theresa Delgadillo
- 2003
A novel of antic humor and sobering pain, of nachos and nourishment of every kind, Face of an Angel straddles old worlds and new, Mexican, American, and Mexican-American, to explore one...
- Denise Chávez
- Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1994
- 0374152047, 9780374152048
- Face of an Angel
Sep 1, 1994 · Face of an Angel tells the story of Soveida Dosamantes, a waitress at El Farol Restaurant in the fictional New Mexican town of Agua Oscura. Soveida shares her life growing up in Agua Oscura, revealing family history and secrets, struggling with her Catholic beliefs, and finding purpose as a waitress.
Face of an Angel, cites what Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar have identified as the tradition of the "self-sacrificing and angelic woman [that] became the paradigm of renunciatory Christian love" (qtd. in Richter 279) and notes the power of Chavez's
