alissafaith63 's review for:

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

5.0

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I feel so privileged to be able to read so many beautiful books in my lifetime. This is no exception. I felt as though Sandra Cisneros looked at my adolescence and wrote it in a book. Although I did not personally grow up in a house like the house on Mango Street, many of my Chicago relatives have. Mainly the aspect of this book that speaks to my soul is the evolution of innocent adolescence to the stark realization of womanhood portrayed through the different prose throughout the book. The writing reflects the ages of Esperanza through the different stories, and at the surface it could seem that these stories are just quick reflections on the people within the neighborhood, but a deeper dive speaks to the reflection of a child in their neighborhood becoming a woman needing to seek the world outside Mango Street. This book felt like reading stories from my soul.