The House on Mango Street in Our Shared Shelf

Dec 11, 2013 Katie rated it really liked it

I enjoyed this more than I had expected. This was read for a book club. I don't know whether to categorize it short stories or not, although I saw that it was a memoir of sorts. It is a series of short tales from the viewpoint of a young girl who is growing up in a poor, urban, Latino area of Chicago. Each story is very brief, only a few pages, but I felt they were powerfully written. Proof that you don't have to go into exhaustive detail to tell a story. Her life, childhood, characters, and the ...more

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Apr 04, 2017 Alejandra rated it really liked it

Delightful coming of age story that I can actually relate to. It is a very short book, composed of vignettes - short impressions (almost like little watercolor paintings) of the life of Esperanza, a Mexican-American girl growing up in Chicago. Beautiful imagery.

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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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