Little Miracles, Kept Promises Summary
Sandra Cisneros

Little Miracles, Kept Promises Summary

"Little Miracles, Kept Promises" is a story in Sandra Cisneros's collection, Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories (New York, 1991). The story consists almost entirely of letters left at a shrine to the Virgin of Guadalupe at a Catholic church in a Mexican-American community in Texas. There are twenty-three notes; each is a petition or request for divine favor. Some letters are only a few lines, others run to nearly a page and the...

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