Face of an angel Book

Last in a long line of long-suffering women, once-divorced, once-widowed Soveida Dosamantes reflects on her 30 years as a waitress at the El Farol Mexican restaurant. Looking back, she hears a rich chorus of Latino voices whose touching, funny and sage advice shows her how to celebrate her true love and her true self.

In this exuberant first novel, a Chicana storyteller offers a novel of antic humor and sobering pain. Once divorced, once a widow, Soveida is a survivor who has worked at a rural Mexican restaurant for 30 years. Straddling old worlds and new, Mexican and American, this story explores one woman's acceptance of her true vocation, her true love, and ultimately, her true self.