Little Miracles, Kept Promises | Critical Overview
With its sharp wit and poetic prose, its use of Spanish words and phrases, its female characters who question their traditional roles, and its focus on Mexican Americans and their impoverished place in society, ‘‘Little Miracles, Kept Promises’’ is characteristic of the stories in Cisneros’s Woman Hollering Creek. The book was hailed by critics as the work of a major new writer. The novelist BarL bara Kingsolver commented in the Los Angeles Times Book Review that ‘‘[n]early every sentence contains an explosive sensory image.’’ Kingsolver singled out...
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