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In these lyrical prose passages, Mexican American women of San Antonio, Tex., muse on their loyalty to Mexico, their lovers and their sense of self-worth. Author tour.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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In this collection of Mexican-American stories, Cisneros addresses the reader in a voice that is alternately buoyant, strong, funny, and sad. The brief vignettes of the opening piece, "My Lucy Friend Who Smells Like Corn," are tiles in a mosaic. Taken together, these vignettes give a vivid, colorful picture of life on the Texas/Mexico border. Family ties are strong: aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents are all present. The stories are often about the romantic dreams of young girls longing to escape stifling small-town life who discover that things are not much different on the other side of the border. Cisneros has an acute eye for the telling detail that reveals the secrets and the dreams of her characters. She writes with humor and love about people she knows intimately.
- Marcia Tager, Tenafly, N.J.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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1.0 out of 5 stars You Will Like This Book, I Didn't..., April 27 2004

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"alphazion" (Encinitas, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Woman Hollering Creek: And Other Stories (Paperback)

You will like this book...
IF you watch Lifetime television.
IF you consider yourself "socially conscious" and are interested in the "chicana" cause.
IF you read books on "the female experience"
IF you have worn or do wear birkenstock sandals with socks.

You will not like this book...
IF you enjoy fine literature.
IF you have read and enjoyed anything by Nabokov or Joyce.
IF you have already suffered through House on Mango Street.
IF you don't enjoy encountering paragraphs like the following...

"Except it's not me who I want to kill. When the gravity of the planets is just right, it all tilts and upsets the visible balance. And that's when it wants to out from my eyes. That's when I get on the telephone, dangerous as a terrorist. There's nothing to do but let it come." (Cisneros, Woman Hollering Creek p.83)

I apologize if this offends any Cisneros fans, however, I must risk being impolite in order to save people the discomfort of reading this book.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Euphoric, Nov 19 2002

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"green189" (Hollywood) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Woman Hollering Creek: And Other Stories (Paperback)

Sandra Cisneros is not a writer--she is a musician, and language is her instrument. Her stories are songs, the charecters relay their feelings in heart-rending arias; each bar is worked to perfection in melody and harmony.
Reading each piece is pure pleasure, and the stories are arranged so that the first few are about children and gradually Cisneros takes us through the Chicana life. The women include the girl who covets her Barbie doll despite its origins, the teen who finds herself pregnant, the abused mother, the artist in love with with the exterminator.
I only regret that there are not more books to sing to me. I saw Cisneros read about a year ago, and she reads with such vivid enthusiasm, I could hear her reading me each story. Her voice sings--I love it.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Poetically written exploration of women's experiences, Jun 11 2002

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studentofislamichistory "studentofislamichistory" (Wisconsin) - See all my reviews

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This is the book which made me a feminist during my undergraduate years, and on which I subsequently wrote my senior English thesis. No author of short stories can turn a phrase the way Cisneros can, and her poetic evocations of different stages of life from young girl to mature young woman shed a multi-faceted light on Hispanic women's experiences in which every paragraph becomes thought-provoking.

In addition, read as a whole thematically, this anthology can be seen as similar to the sort of artistic coming-of-age novels such as Hermann Hesse's Peter Camenzind. The key turning point in this development may be the story "Little Miracles, Kept Promises," which is a series of letters left at the shrine of La Virgin de Guadelupe. This reveals the many layers of the shrine, which is the site of an old Aztec goddess with whom Cisneros identified, and who allows for a new revelation of feminine power in the Mexican heritage which comes out for the rest of the work.

However you choose to read it, this is a collection which will both delight and challenge all who come prepared.

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