![]() There is a list of bad habits in this book. Much of the text is marred with forced metaphors, non-sequitors, redundance, and curio-shop descriptions - contrived and colorful and meant to appeal to tourist readers from outside the culture. It is instead a collection of unevenly written vignettes that would tell the story of three generations in the narrator's family, and contains precious few examples of fine writing among the eighty-odd little pieces. It can hardly be called a novel, since it lacks the unity and resolution of theme that might make it one. ![]() ![]() Given the talent she obviously owns, Caramelo is a big disappointment. ![]() Cisneros's talent has been confirmed by Mango St and Woman Hollering Creek, her two fiction offerings from the past,and by the poetry of Loose Woman, loaded with a language deftly conjured and tooled, and achieving an alchemy that puts her among the very best American, not just Chicana, poets of our day. ![]()
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