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The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

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bookdrunkard78's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

3.5

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historyoftape's review against another edition

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hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.75

Every vignette seemed like its own poem, a child picking apart someone else's brain, asking only questions adults would be ashamed or scared to ask, and coming to conclusions about herself through it all. I wished this was longer-but at the same time I understand that it couldn't be, because maybe the next vignette would have been the leaving, and maybe the coming back would have been much later, or never, and I guess the not knowing was the point anyways - I was in love with every character, ached for every character, and loved Esperanza though she seemed to talk about herself only in relation to others. And isn't that how a child learns and grows? By defining the world in vignettes, in people you want to become and people who show you what directions you never want to take? I have discovered that one day, I too might return to mango street. The house I belong to but do not belong to.

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janethevirgin46's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

In less than 100 pages, I cried twice. It was deeply effective in showing part of life in poverty, and the sadness of feeling lost in it. Absolutely wonderful book and glad I read it.

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challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated

5.0

I loved this book. It had a pleasant read within it that touches on a lot of Latin struggles within the US specifically. I gave me a different perspective on familial instances of my own, and has become one of my favorite reads and one of my top books of all time. Sandra captures the reader with her fruitful progression and stark imagery that does not lack in all senses. You could literally paint the pictures you were reading. I recommend this as a must read from such a strong Latin author!

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stevia333k's review against another edition

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dark sad slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character

I'm not rating this because I feel like the era this book is from ended within the past 10 year. I feel like I'm late to the scene. I didn't read this as part of a class when that's been the common way of interacting with this book.

This book is very much of the baby boomer generation (I had to use an inflation calculator), the setting is a single year circa 1977-1984. I'm not sure how much is historically accurate. There's obsolete parts.

This had been on my to read list since I was a little kid. I finally got an audiobook copy from my library today & it was only 2h19m long. Circa 2014 i was reading chapters of this book out of order because i approached it as an anthology similar to "chicken noodle souo for the [fill in the blank] soul". Also my reading speed back then sucked.

Um, let's just say there's a massive rape culture, massive domestic violence, and there's at least 1 murder. Also suicidality. There's a part in the book where the girls are parroting transphobic biological essentialism, but to be fair that part of the story kind of calls out the academics who do that as people with power making just-so stories in order to maintain how they outrank others (hence calling this sort of queerphobia as naive).

I feel like this book was presented way back in my day how "braiding sweetgrass" is these days. I'm not sure how to feel about that. The book "settlers" by j sakai was contemporary to this book. IDK why this book became the popular book for including Latinx/hispanic people in academia.

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