“The pictures of Spain Cantú paints with her words are as rich as the Texas soil of her homeland. . . . Marvelously entertaining and romantic.”—Texana Reads column, Corpus Christi Caller-Times
“It is a feast for the senses, sighing of monarch butterflies flocking south, croquetas de salmon and plato fuerte, Tejano music blaring against the stars. . . . Cabañuelas is an arresting story of individual complexities.”—Foreword Reviews
“Cantú writes the effortless prose of a travel writer or memoirist reporting contemporary events, a diarist. . . . Cantú controls her art with excellence.”—La Bloga
“A personal almanac that crosses borders of genres, a testimonio/novela, a compendium of folklore, a collection of snapshots, an unlynching, a rope loosened from the throat of history, a telling, a woman reclaiming a private geography from that multiplicity of geographies—la frontera, from un ‘pedacito de tierra that is home.’”—Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street
“In Cabañuelas, both author and protagonist are ethnographers, co-weaving a story rich in descriptions of folklore, architecture, landscape, relationships, and academia while telling a transtemporal and transcontinental story of self-affirmation against the historical backdrops and center-stage landscapes of Spain, Mexico, and the United States.”—Larissa M. Mercado-López, coeditor of (Re)mapping the Latina/o Literary Landscape
