Itself divided into the sections Foremothers, Self and Identity, Self and Others, Spaces, Myths and Archetypes, Writers on Language and Writing, Growing Up, and Celebrations, this broadly inclusive anthology includes writers who need no introduction to anyone familiar with Chicana literature: Ana Castillo, Sandra Cisneros, Gloria Anzaldua, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Alma Villanueva, Cordelia Candelaria...and if you haven't read their poetry or pose, here's your chance.

Simply the most comprehensive collection of Mexican-American women's writing --both good and bad-- "Infinite Divisions" has enough jewels to understand why it would be required reading for anyone hoping to delve into Chicana literature.
"Little Miracles, Kept Promises" by Sandra Cisneros is a nice sample Mexican-American life condensed into a format so innovative that it merits being read twice... Prayers and petitions to God and all the saints, hopes and fears about sexuality and love and life, the traditional scraps of paper left as a religious offering in church become a touching prose piece.
The book thoroughly disects the sometimes-ghost-story, sometimes-feminist-symbol of La Llorona, the crying woman who murdered her children in some stories and who was the reincarnation of La Malinche (Hernan Cortes' lover) in others. "Aztec Princess" and "Malinche's Discourse" make for wonderful discussion pieces, not to mention reading.

The best review of this novel can be found in three passages from its introduction by Tey Diana Rebolledo:

The postmodern narration in Puppet has made the novella a challenge to the untrained reader. In addition to the fractured narrator, the muliplicity of voices that intermingle, the brutally honest and funny colloquial language that rubs up against official language, the simultaneity of past and present, the history of political oppression of Chicanos by Anglos and by other Chicanos themselves, and the different literary registers that are present in the novel combine to create a cacophony of narration that even Homi Bhabba would be proud of.

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Is Puppet a mystery? A coming to consciousness novel? A political commentary? A novel of social criticism? The story of a woman coming into her own? About writing and creativity? Indeed it is all of these things and more. That all these aspects are intricately intertwined in the narrative is what challenges the reader, while at the same time yielding itself to multiple interpretations.

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Puppet is a compelling narrative that will lead you into dark situations, but one that ultimately finds redemption. It is, however, a redemption in which all of us need to take part. This excellent translation, done with the author, may help us arrive there.

This book is written in very difficult Spanish as well as a stream of consciousness style. Read it anyway if you can. Cota-Cardenas writes articulately and beautifully about subjects I could only reduce to cliches, English or Spanish, were I to enumerate them.