With her fiction and poetry Sandra Cisneros creates poignant stories and brings an original twist to universal themes, notably love. Yet, as Sagel in Publishers Weekly pointed out, "Cisneros knows her characters live in an America very different from that of her potential readers." Proud of her heritage and gender, Cisneros offers compelling portraits of Chicanos and Latinos--Americans of Mexican and Latin-American descent respectively--and displays a powerful and lyrical use of language born of her training in poetry. The author's first fictional work, The House on Mango Street, revolves around a young, female protagonist and was acknowledged by Washington Post Book World contributor Susan Wood as "something of an underground classic." Ilan Stavans, writing in Commonweal, added that the book is "a composite of evocative snapshots that manages to passionately recreate the milieu of the poor qu arters of Chicago." The author once indicated that with her 1991 publication, Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories, she "was trying to populate this book with as many different kinds of Latinos as possible so that mainstream America could see how diverse we are." Noting the success of this venture, Mirabella contributor Rachel Pulido deemed Woman Hollering Creek "moving, vivid, honest" and indicative of "an author who feel s great love for the people she writes about." Her novel Caramelo further explores the Mexican-American experience through the eyes of a young girl.
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