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Beautifully written.
From Publishers Weekly
In these lyrical prose passages, Mexican American women of San Antonio, Tex., muse on their loyalty to Mexico, their lovers and their sense of self-worth. Author tour.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
In this collection of Mexican-American stories, Cisneros addresses the reader in a voice that is alternately buoyant, strong, funny, and sad. The brief vignettes of the opening piece, "My Lucy Friend Who Smells Like Corn," are tiles in a mosaic. Taken together, these vignettes give a vivid, colorful picture of life on the Texas/Mexico border. Family ties are strong: aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents are all present. The stories are often about the romantic dreams of young girls longing to escape stifling small-town life who discover that things are not much different on the other side of the border. Cisneros has an acute eye for the telling detail that reveals the secrets and the dreams of her characters. She writes with humor and love about people she knows intimately.
- Marcia Tager, Tenafly, N.J.
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BOMB 81, Fall 2002, featuring: Interviews with Jane Hammond by David Lehman, Walid Ra'ad by Alan Gilbert, Martina Kudlacek by Robert Gardner, Mahmoud Darwish by Raja Shehadeh, Jeffrey Eugenides by Jonathan Safran Foer, Steve Reich and Beryl Korot by Julia Wolfe, and Christopher Shinn by David Greenspan. Essays on Caio Fonseca by Peter Elley, Emily Eveleth by Betsy Sussler, The Orchard Group by Janet Olmsted Cross, and Lenore Malen by Jonathan Ames. Fiction and poetry by Sandra Cisneros, Gershom Scholem, Silvia Baron Supervielle, Arkadii Dragomoshchenko, Scott Graham, Luis Eduardo Lopez, Matilde Daviu, Jenifer Berman, and Patricia Spears Jones. ... Read more

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Volume 4 - includes, Selections from A House on Mango Street, How Wang-Fo Was Scared, Sleeping Arrangements, Palais de Justice, Forgiveness in Families, and The Jewbird ... Read more

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This anthology is a collection of poetry written by San Diego K-12 students who participated in the literacy promoting Border Voices Poetry Project as well as submissions from the acclaimed poets Adrienne Rich, Robert Creeley, Sandra Ciscernos and Ken Waldman. ... Read more

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From the back cover: "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 schools to universities across the country, and translated all over the world, it has entered the canon of coming-of-age classics.Sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes deeply joyous, The House on Mango Street tells the story of Esperanza Cordero, whose neighborhood is one of harsh realities and harsh beauty. Esperanza doesn't want to belong--not to her rundown neighborhood, and not to the low expectations the world has for her. Esperanza's story is that of a young girl coming into her power, and inventing for herself what she will become." ... Read more

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