“Tells an important story... [Saracho] leverages a literary classic to spotlight the wrenching effects of Mexico’s drug wars.” – Austin 360
“El Nogalar provides a strikingly intimate and welcoming bilingual context for examining social class in contemporary Mexico, paralleling the themes explored by Chekhov in The Cherry Orchard's Russia more than a century ago.” – The Austin Chronicle, Read More
“El Nogalar lives both in Cekhov’s world and Saracho’s world, where class pressure and social turmoil threatens traditional families' land and lifestyle in contemporary Mexico.” – Chicago Critic, Read More
“Marvelous!...Tanya Saracho is a very detailed writer, and one who brings the Mexican flavor to her work as well as a look from the female perspective.” – Around the Town Chicago, Read More
“Tanya Saracho’s reworking of Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard as El
Nogalar (“The Pecan Orchard”) crafts a more complex and colorful picture
of a nation not only in a constant struggle to come to terms with its
neighbor to the north, for sure, but also with its own troubled past and
present.” – New City Stage