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These poetic vignettes give insight into what it's like to live in a lower class Chicago neighborhood as a Latino from a young girl's perspective. Cisneros's writing is sparse and insightful. I appreciated that, even though she writes from a young girl's perspective, her writing doesn't feel didactic or forceful or trite like some YA or middle grade writing can. Esperanza, the protagonist of the story, lives her life caught between two worlds: her reality in which she lives in a dilapidated hous
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Although I thought it was quite well written, I didn't particularly connect with any of the stories. Perhaps it was because I listened to the audiobook which was narrated by the author and I found the forced child voice she used annoying.
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Sep 11, 2020
Traci
marked it as have-to-read
Jul 06, 2017
Lauren
marked it as to-read
