"Teresina ("Tere") Avila is a divorced, thirty-something Chicana working as a teacher's aide "in the hinterlands of life" in Cabritoville, New Mexico, a small, dusty town near El Paso, Texas. The love of her life is Lucio, a smooth-talking ne'er-do-well who will never leave his wife and daughter, but ties Tere's heart in knots with a string of promises. Her diversions are few but intense, and revolve around her best friend, Irma "La Wirms," and her membership in the Pedro Infante Club #256.". "Pedro Infante was an icon of Mexican popular culture, a onetime carpenter whose career in song and on screen propelled him to the heights of fame. He was killed in a plane crash on April 15, 1957 (or was he?), and as secretary of the Pedro Infante Club, Tere is a walking almanac of facts about this tragic hero. When her covert relationship with Lucio begins to consume her life, Tere becomes increasingly dissatisfied with who she is and the choices she has made, until a chance encounter one night at a border-town truck stop forces her to reevaluate her hopes and expectations."--BOOK JACKET.