"BREAD" SANDRA CISNEROS I question whether these two people in the story are having an affair, back together after a divorce, or whatever? Something as simple as bread can lead to that answer. The bread is much like their relationship, actually exactly like it. "We were hungry. We went into a Bakery on Grand Avenue and bought bread. Filled the backseat. The whole car smelled of bread. Big sourdough loaves shaped like a fat ass"(…showed first 75 words of 3999 total…

…showed last 75 words of 3999 total…a book entirely of poetry, My Wicked Wicked Ways. I think it is just the descriptive words, and great detail she uses that makes it seem this way. In short, all of the stories within this book, either relating to her directly or not, "Challenges her reader to see life as it really is - full of unrequited passions and solitary confusions, with moments of connection real but few and far between"(Detroit Free Press).