It has been praised by a number of writers, including Carlos Fuentes,[1] Alma Guillermoprieto, Roberto Bolaño[2] and Elena Poniatowska, as well as publications such as Publishers Weekly[3].

One of her novels, Son vacas, somos puercos (1991, translated into English in 1997 as They're Cows, We're Pigs[5]) is narrated in the first person by an old man looking back on his life.

Boullosa is also well known for her Teatro herético (1987), a compilation of three parodies in play format—Aura y las once mil vírgenes, Cocinar hombres, and Propusieron a María.

The first tells the story of a man called by God to "deflower" eleven thousand virgins in his life, so that heaven's overpopulation problem might be addressed, since the women will have to wait in purgatory for a time.

Cocinar hombres tells the story of two girls who find themselves to have become young adult witches overnight, so as to fly over the earth tempting but not satisfying men.