Women Who Live in Coffee Shops and Other Stories
"Taps into the most pressing issues of contemporary urban living, a war zone with many wounds. And Duarte refuses to simply romanticize or indict the working class. Instead, she challenges the negative stereotypes." --El Paso Times"Duarte skillfully provides immediate access to the perspectives of each narrator and to their personal version of the Van Buren Street neighborhood...Transcends the limitations of individual perspectives to present a portrait of a community...In these stories the small mercies of serendipity arise from apparent chaos." --Western American Literature