Little Miracles, Kept Promises (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Sandra Cisneros
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Short story
- Genres: Short fiction, Epistolary literature
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Twentieth century, Virginity or virgins, Religion, Mexican Americans, Identity, Latinos, Saints or sainthood
“Little Miracles, Kept Promises” is a catalog of Cisneros's strengths and appeals as a fiction writer. The collection of notes left at saints’ shrines may recall the letters of Nathanael West's Miss Lonelyhearts (1933), but the tone of these is more consistently comic, showing well the witty and humorous side of Cisneros that appears in many of her stories and poems. For example, Barbara Ybañez threatens to turn the statue of San Antonio de Padua upside down until he sends her “a man man. I mean someone who's not ashamed to be seen cooking or cleaning or looking after...
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