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In the soothing darkness of her local theater, thirty-something teacher's aide and divorc e Teresina "Tere" vila 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,... Read Full Overview

An exuberant novel about a lovelorn woman obsessed with the Mexican film star Pedro Infante. Teresina ("Tere") vila is a divorced, thirty-something Chicana working "in the hinterlands of life" in Cabritoville, New Mexico, a small dusty town near El Paso, Texas. The love of her... Read Full Overview

Pedro Infante. Irresistible gal n de la pantalla grande. Su imagen provoca mareos y suspiros de a oranza a las mexicanas y le proporciona a Tere vila, Secretaria del Club de Admiradores de Pedro Infante #256, el ideal so ado con que mide a los varones, por dem s reales, de su... Read Full Overview