Reviews - The House on Mango Street

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

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In snippets that leave you craving more, The House on Mango Street forms a hasty sketch of the life of a maturing Mexico-to-USA migrant. Her story, which is somewhere between diary entries and a serialised newspaper column, consists of her experiences and her observations of others on Mango Street, which mainly houses other migrant families as well as lower-income households. The short chapters don’t give many details, but they don’t need to; the stories, while at times distressing, are either so relatable or so universal that one can easily fill in the blanks. I blasted through this book, loved the diversity of the characters, and was touched by the narrator’s strong connection to her community.

talia_eh's review against another edition

3.0

dark emotional lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

xsandman's review against another edition

2.5

fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

that was a cute short book. a collection of short, short stories or “vignettes” about cisneros’s coming of age experience growing up in chicago. i think i would’ve enjoyed this more if i was younger. tbh it was hard to stay engaged & excited to keep reading. some of the stories were quite sad actually. the writing structure fell a bit flat for me but i enjoyed branching out! i can definitely see this book being enjoyable/relatable for other folks. just trying to catch up on my reading goal for the year rn though. also first book on kindle hehe

mgzzzz's review

4.0

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: N/A

Strong character development: N/A

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

Truly an insight of being a first generation Mexican American and all of the different feelings you experience as a kid

jilliannichols's review against another edition

4.0

Required reading for my AP English class in 12th grade. Of the 5 or 6 that we had to read that year, I remember that this was one that I liked more. However, 7 years later, I can't recall much of the storyline - guess it didn't leave much of an impact.

heyshannonhall's review against another edition

3.0

fast-paced

I probably should not even rate this… I listened to the whole thing but had a hard time paying attention for whatever reason. Too much going on this week. I wish I had read this in school. Maybe I’ll return to it one day.