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Loading... The House on Mango Streetby Sandra Cisneros
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. This is a series of vignettes about Esperanza, a pre-teen girl growing up in a latino neighborhood in Chicago. It's very, very short, even shorter than the 110 pages it appears to be, because each story starts halfway down on the page, and often end with just one paragraph or a few lines on the next page, so there's a ton of empty space. The stories are all just little ordinary things, like reading somebody's memories rather than A Novel. I enjoyed it a lot. (  ) kyuuketsukirui | Nov 23, 2009 |  This was an interesting & easy read. I had not read a book like this. It makes me appreciate what an easy life I've had. Good neighborhoods, nice people surrounding me. Many more nice things that some people don't have--EVER. (  ) suzanne5002 | Sep 6, 2009 | This is a nice novella told in a series of short vignettes, giving the reader snapshots in the life of a young Latino preteen growing up in a poorer neighborhood of Chicago. It is an interesting way to tell a story, but it does manage to very well capture the essence of growing & maturing from a young girl's standpoint. I had both the paperback & audio version of this book, and alternated between the two as I read. I preferred the audio in this case, as it was read by the author & therefore read in its intended rhythm. ( ) indygo88 | Aug 25, 2009 | This is a series of vignettes, ranging from a half page to a few pages long, told from the point of view of a young Hispanic girl in a poor American community about things that go on there. Some were quite powerful. But mostly I felt that this book was too short for me to really get into. It was over almost before I blinked. (  ) stubbyfingers | Jul 21, 2009 | When I started this book, it was mediocre...and it didn't get much better unfortunately. (  ) heidijane | Jul 20, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
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