Street of Too Many Stories

Street of Too Many Stories is the latest novel by acclaimed Chicana author, Denise Chávez.

Conocimientos Press is delighted to bring this astounding work of art to you in the Spring of 2024.

Denise Chávez is an American author, playwright, and stage director. Her work celebrates the border corridor of southern New Mexico, West Texas, and northern México. Her novel Face of an Angel (1994) won the American Book Award and The King and Queen of Comezón (2014) won the 2015 International Latino Book Award as well as the New Mexico–Arizona Award for fiction. Chávez other books include Loving Pedro Infante (2001) and A Taco Testimony: Meditations on Family, Food and Culture (2006). She is also the director of Casa Camino Real, a cultural center, bookstore, and art gallery of the historic Camino Real in Las Cruces, New Mexico.

Already, the reviews are in agreement with us, Street of Many Stories is a must read:

“A street seems like a simple thing. But this novel shows it is so much more. It's the lives that fill its nooks and crannies and open vistas. The spaces echoing with words said and unsaid, of dreams won and lost. Of the worlds that circulate between walls and across doorsteps. The joys and sorrows that whistle through the four directions, and the quirks and refinements that smooth the edges of what is left behind. Chávez has written a beautiful work of fiction, and a must read."

Dr. Roberta Hurtado

Associate Professor of Latina/e/o/x Literature and Culture,

State University of New York Oswego

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"Denise Chávez's new novel, Street of Too Many Stories, is an expansive yet richly intimate tale about the inhabitants of a New Mexican calle. Chávez embraces the losses, dreams, and secrets of the border, its peoples, and of the complex destinies set in motion by place. A sensory feast!"

Cristina García

Author of Vanishing Maps

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