Book Reviews of The House on Mango Street

A beautiful series of short vignettes about the life of Esperanza, a young Chicano woman with dreams of something better. Heartbreaking, joyful - I love this book!

Not what I expected, but a beautiful book from start to finish.

I hated this book. It is a collection of exceptionally stupid and boring poetry. However if that sort of thing intrests you this may be a good fit.

This book grips the reader from the beginning and doesn't let go. Instead of traditional linear story telling, her life is told in scenes and vignettes. This book is beautifully written and should be read by everyone ages 14 and up. It is a unique look into the life of an Hispanic American girl.

I really enjoyed this book, wonderful stories.

Excellent book! Great story, I have never read another book like it.

A wonderful memoir of a child in a small ethnically diverse community. Very heartfelt and honest.

Good book..just not my reading style.

One of my all-time favorite books! Cisneros has a beautiful, unique style!

"Vigorous, punch and imagistic. Cisneros knows exactly what she's after in her narrative -- and achieves it with admirable grace." -- San Antonio Express-News.

"Sandra Cisneros is one of the most brilliant of today's young writers. Her work is sensitive, alert, nuancefull...rich with music and picture." --Gwendolyn Brooks

Told in a series of vignettes stunning for their eloquence... is the story of a young girl growing up in the Hispanic quarter of Chicago.

great book

I enjoyed this book.

Story about a Spanish girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago very good book.

great story and easy to read.

Excellent book that was on my wishlist-I found another copy to share here on PBS!

As a Latina, I treasured this look into the life of my co-madres growing up in the tough barrios of Chicago. Short but sweet in a melancholy way. This is not so much a novel as a series of sketches that will teach you more about us as Hispanic women than any workshop.

This book was capitvating. It's the story of a young hispanic girl's journey into adulthood. Even though I read it for school, I could not put it down!

Once again a peek into a different culture and the values that shape lives.

I read this book for an International Literature class--it was great. I felt like I experienced (at least one woman's view of) latino culture. A great read for people who aren't latino and are interested in learning more about what it's like to be.

Excellent insights into growing up and knowing a wide variety of personalities. Each chapter is a memory that shapes who one is and a reminder that we should not forget where we come from.

Gripping, poignant, and not easily put asside

This is a wonderful book for young latina girls to read. It a coming of age classic!

Really liked it.

this was a cute book by sandra cisneros.. i love her work

A girl coming of age in the Hispanic quarter of Chicago, uses poems and stories to express thoughts and emotions about her oppressive environment.

The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros, is a series of prose vignettes (with a little bit of poetry thrown in) that chronicles a pre-teenaged girl, Esperanza, growing up on Mango Street in Chicago. The prose is beautifully written, the stories hauntingly sad at times. Each chapter is only 1 to 3 pages long, each describing the people and places that Esperanza encounters. The overriding theme of the book is how Esperanza belongs but doesn't want to belong to Mango Street. She is and is not Mango Street.

Overall, I'd rate this book a 9 out of 10, and I plan to keep it on my bookshelf for the time being.

"Told in a series of vignettes stunning for their eloquence, THE HOUSE ON MANGO STREET is Sandra Cisneros's greatly admired novel of a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago. Acclaimed by critics, beloved by children, their parents and grandparents, taught everywhere from inner-city grade school to universities across the country, and translated all over the world, it has entered the canon of coming-or-age classics." (back cover)

A series of vingnettes forms a novel of a young girs growing up in the Latino section of Chicago. You chronicle the life of a young girl coming into her power and inventing for herself what she will become.

awesome, atmoespheric, amazing!

pretty good, very fast read, I liked the writing style

very good stories - great read!

I didn't like this book very much. There are notes on some of the pages. I guess the person before did it

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