"Me llamo Diego Torres, pero mi madre siempre me dice " ngel." No s por qu . No soy religioso, y ahora que tengo 19 a os, no me gusta ese nombre."So begins " ngel," written by award-winning teacher and scholar Bill VanPatten. Diego Torres is a student at UC Berkeley. Smart but quiet, he harbors a secret until circumstances force him to reveal what he's hiding. Poignant, timely, and defying stereotypes and genres, " ngel" is the story that every student in Spanish should read. " ngel" is a captivating text for both intermediate and advanced students of Spanish that consists of nine segments plus a prologue and an epilogue.