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saralilyb 's review for:
The House on Mango Street
by Sandra Cisneros
This is verse poetry typeset as prose. It made me mad a lot of the time, which was the point. Mad at the lack of education, mad at myself for thinking even for a moment that education could fix what made me mad, and then mad at the oppressive power structures whose fits this book echoes so pointedly well. I immediately wanted to hit every mentioned man with a flail, then tell them why they are wrong and give them the means to change themselves.
It's incredibly lucid and honest writing about childhood and growing up poor, and about society in that space. I want to say it's American but I don't think that's true, I think it's a lot broader than that; it's human.
Oh and it'll take you like 90 minutes to read the whole book, if that.
It's incredibly lucid and honest writing about childhood and growing up poor, and about society in that space. I want to say it's American but I don't think that's true, I think it's a lot broader than that; it's human.
Oh and it'll take you like 90 minutes to read the whole book, if that.