Reviews for Face of an angel

The average rating for Face of an angel based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-11-04 00:00:00 Troy Chupp Women oriented perspective; great read with lots of color and character. Quotes from one of my favorite chapters: "Life is a great big face, with all the markings of our history on it. These wrinkles are my hardness and my silly worries, my lies and my unspoken words. They are the work I do and the things I left undone." "M'ija, we've all been taught to hide what we truly feel behind our faces. Some of us eventually wake up to see the masks our faces have become." "Today, m'ija, you rarely meet a woman with an open face. We're taught to shape our bodies into the molds of clothes. Your poor mama' has bra straps that cut into her shoulders. When men see her, they only think breasts. Soveida, we are more than our bodies or our breasts. Loss changes us. And pain. And the death of those we love. Eyes cloud over and are covered by soft cataracts. Lips are swallowed and vanish. Eyebrows and eyelashes disappear in childbirth. Age spots begin to flourish. Small moles become significant. Pores enlarge. Teeth darken, crumble, and become silver or gold twinklings in the unwelcome sea of mouths we don't care to know. But we are more than this change, more than this face, Soveida. We become our mothers, our grandmothers. And when we see people who wear their antepasados in their face, it is a relief, and a blessing to know the ancestors are near."

Review # 2 was written on 2007-07-15 00:00:00 Antoine Attier When I read this book I sink all the way in and never want to come out. Denise Chavez creates the most beautiful women- Soveida, her mother Dolores, her grandmother Lupe, her cousin Mara, their servant and friend Oralia. Soveida narrates all of their stories braided together. They are stories of service, of angels, of milagros- miracles.