reflejx 's review for:

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

5.0

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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.