“Sharply realized fiction located in a vibrant community.”—Kirkus Reviews
“Granados’s characters’ voices ring true in these peeks into everyday life on the Texas-Mexico border.”—Booklist
“Like the sharp-edged agave set against the El Paso cityscape that dominates the foreground of her collection’s front cover, Granados’s heartfelt stories about working-class characters of Mexican descent are razor-laced narratives that cut holes in prevailing literary archetypes and social stereotypes. . . . Granados’s succinct and sharply worded prose hits the reader multiple times through her narrative’s grounding in social realism.”—Western American Literature
“A vivid look at those who love and those who lose along the El Paso–Ciudad Juarez border.”—Latino Book Review
“Like her characters, Christine Granados is not afraid to step up and in. It doesn’t matter who, what man or woman, Chicano or Chicana, she’s fighting to win.”—Dagoberto Gilb, author of Before the End, After the Beginning: Stories
“Kick-ass writing from a chingona from El Chuco—a real slice of America without the stereotypes and hype from the evening news. ¡Brava!”—Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street
“While there are threads of hope in the plot lines of these stories, don’t look for pretty bows. More often, the loose ends get tied up in knots—just like the loose ends of real life.”—Diana López, author of Sofia’s Saints, Confetti Girl, and Ask My Mood Ring How I Feel
