Denise Chavez, a prolific playwright, poet, and novelist, is the author of Loving Pedro Infante, Face of an Angel, and The Last of the Menu Girls. She lives in New Mexico.
<i>Ramona</i> is a second <i>Uncle Tom's Cabin</i><b>. . . . </b>The arrogant mestiza whose attachment to her Indian lover endures through persecution and death <b>. . . </b>and the desperate love they share until the vanquishing blond race casts them out like hunted animals . . . all this is alive in these pages. -Jose Marti<i>