A review by ari76
Carmelo or Puro Cuento by Sandra Cisneros

4.0

Once I got into this (~100 pages), I couldn't stop until I was too immersed in the complex Reyes' family history. There are few writers who can describe a conversation, a memory, a feeling, like Cisneros and for that I give her the utmost praise. I also enjoyed the historical footnotes looped into the family narrative. That being said, sometimes it was laborious to keep the plot threads straight and Celaya's stream of consciousness took extra time to process. Still, a great one.