It is a collaborative effort designed to unite and uplift hundreds of citizens by encouraging reading and promoting a sense of community by sharing a common topic for conversation.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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<\/figure>\r\n<\/div>\r\nOne Book One Valley \u2013 Vail is presented each year by The Bookworm of Edwards, Colorado Mountain College in Edwards,\r\nVail Public Library, Battle Mountain High School, Vail Mountain School, Vail Ski and Eagle Valley High School.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nWe encourage all residents to read the same book at the same time to create a community book club.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/h4>\r\n<\/h4>\r\n<\/h4>\r\nDid you guess the title?<\/h4>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
<\/h4>\r\nDid you guess the title?<\/h4>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The Lat of the Menu Girls by Denise Chavez is the selected title for this 2019<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.vailvalleypartnership.com\/fa-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/01\/61PSt9BqW3L-664x1024.jpg\")
<\/figure>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe Last of the Menu Girls<\/em> is a collection of seven interrelated stories about Roc\u00edo Esquibel, a young Mexican American woman in southern New Mexico who seeks to understand herself, her family, and her community. Roc\u00edo\u2019s development from girl to woman gives unity to the collage of stories. Roc\u00edo observes those around her she provides a portrait of a culturally diverse community and a clear insight into the human condition.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe title story introduces Roc\u00edo at age seventeen beginning her first job as an aide in a hospital in her home town. It is the summer of 1966. One of her tasks is to take menus to patients and get their\r\nrequests for meals. Roc\u00edo studies the patients with great attention. She sees them as individuals with differing needs, and her heart reaches out to them so fully that she suspects she is too emotional for the job. Her emotional investment, however, helps Roc\u00edo understand others and\r\nmakes her better able to understand herself. By the end of the summer Roc\u00edo has been promoted to other duties in the hospital and the system has changed; she is literally the last of the menu girls. Her compassion for others continues to serve her well as a way of understanding herself and her relationship to the world.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nIn the other stories Roc\u00edo increasingly looks to the past, to her personal history and to that of her Mexican American culture. She also tries to envision the future, to create the woman she hopes to be. By the end of the stories Roc\u00edo has found her mission. As her mother says, it would take a lifetime to write even the story of their home; there are stories all around. Roc\u00edo dedicates herself to writing the lives of the ordinary people she knows, people who often cannot speak for themselves. In the process of telling their stories, Roc\u00edo will speak for herself and for her culture.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAbout the Author<\/h4>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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