Book Review
Apr. 15th, 2024 12:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kenjariThe House on Mango Street
by Sandra Cisneros
The House on Mango Street is a classic coming of age tale told in a series of vignettes from the perspective of Esperanza, a Mexican-American girl growing up in a Chicago neighborhood. Over the course of the book, she comes to a deeper understanding of her neighbors, their lives, and who she wants to be, the life she wants to have.
This book is beautifully written and contains a depth and sweep that belies its brevity. Cisneros is able to make so many things and people so vivid with only a few paragraphs. I especially love the way many of the vignettes have something going on below the surface for the reader to discover, and the way these things come more and more to the surface as Esperanza grows and starts to truly see more of what is going on around her.
by Sandra Cisneros
The House on Mango Street is a classic coming of age tale told in a series of vignettes from the perspective of Esperanza, a Mexican-American girl growing up in a Chicago neighborhood. Over the course of the book, she comes to a deeper understanding of her neighbors, their lives, and who she wants to be, the life she wants to have.
This book is beautifully written and contains a depth and sweep that belies its brevity. Cisneros is able to make so many things and people so vivid with only a few paragraphs. I especially love the way many of the vignettes have something going on below the surface for the reader to discover, and the way these things come more and more to the surface as Esperanza grows and starts to truly see more of what is going on around her.
