Sharply realized fiction located in a vibrant community.--Kirkus Reviews

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

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

Granados's characters' voices ring true in these peeks into everyday life on the Texas-Mexico border.--Booklist

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