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Nov 24, 2013 Cheryl rated it really liked it

Shelves: feminist, multicultural

I have wanted to read this book for a long time. Beautifully written in a series of vignettes about a young Latina girl growing up in Chicago. So many poetic, astute, and deeply observant lines.

"You can never have too much sky. You can fall asleep and wake up drunk on sky, and sky can keep you safe when you are sad. here there is too much sadness and not enough sky. Butterflies too are few and so are flowers and most things that are beautiful. Still, we take what we can get and make the best of ...more

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Jul 08, 2009 Cynthia Paschen rated it really liked it

From "Hips": "One day you wake up and they are there. Ready and waiting like a new Buick with the keys in the ignition. Ready to take you where?"
A gorgeous book of vignettes. ...more

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Jul 02, 2015 Sarah rated it really liked it

Shelves: fiction, classics, american-fiction, latin-america-fiction

I liked this book well enough to read it in three short sittings, but that's also because it is only 110 pages. I wanted to like it more. I like the concept of vignettes - each one is no more than three or four pages, so it's easy to stop and resume whenever you need to - and some of the stories are heartbreaking. But it is precisely because I felt myself starting to like the characters and getting to know them that I wanted to know them better, to find out what happens to them over the long ter ...more

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Jul 25, 2007 treehugger rated it it was ok

Shelves: own_it, coming-of-age, classics, kidsbooks, short-stories_and_essays

Just eh. Not a life-changing book by any means. If you want a quick read that you won't get too attached to, this is your book. Otherwise--read something better. ...more

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