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lizzybethrae 's review for:
The House on Mango Street
by Sandra Cisneros
"She looked out the window her whole life, the way so many women sit their sadness on an elbow. I wonder if she made the best with what she got or was she sorry because she couldn’t be all the things she wanted to be. Esperanza. I have inherited her name, but I don’t want to inherit her place by the window."
This was a lovely, moving story. For such a quick read, it is packed full of surprisingly heavy themes of feminism and sexuality and growing up. I love the manner in how it's written--brief snapshots of a childhood, much as childhood is remembered. In pieces. Not really coherent, but vivid. In some ways this makes it more difficult to become emotionally involved, but chapters such as "No Speak English" demonstrate Cisnero's ability to stuff so many feelings and sentiments and themes into so few pages.
This was a lovely, moving story. For such a quick read, it is packed full of surprisingly heavy themes of feminism and sexuality and growing up. I love the manner in how it's written--brief snapshots of a childhood, much as childhood is remembered. In pieces. Not really coherent, but vivid. In some ways this makes it more difficult to become emotionally involved, but chapters such as "No Speak English" demonstrate Cisnero's ability to stuff so many feelings and sentiments and themes into so few pages.