The House on Mango Street
Format: paperback
ASIN: 1486923
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 110
Category:
Young Adult,
Classics,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
Read For School,
Realistic Fiction,
Coming Of Age,
Poetry,
Short Stories,
Fiction
The House on Mango Street was the last book I read before Birdie was born, so it goes without saying that it was mostly chosen based on the slimness of the spine. Cisneros wrote a series of vignettes that, tied together, make up a coming-of-age story. Her writing is easy to read and the prose is pre...
I'm not latino, but I grew up poor. I was lucky enough that my mom tried her best to keep us from being super aware of this fact. We got free lunch and sometimes she pretended she'd already eaten dinner, and our house was infested with cockroaches and didn't have enough insulation to keep warm in a ...
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