RaveThe Southwest ReviewIt’s only through understanding the historical cycles that shaped her past that Rivera Garza can make sense of the fears and longings that haunt her present. In Autobiography of Cotton, she lays out a method for the rest of us to undertake the same excavation.
PositiveThe New RepublicChilco’s imagistic and documentary structure, its radical mixture of poetry and fiction, is held together by the novel’s emphasis on the ecology of the island.
