Annette C. Boehm reviewed The house on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
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3 stars
This book is a quick read, a sequence of short to very short (think 1/3 of a page) stories about the inhabitants of Mango Street. It's the (at times deceptive) simplicity of these stories that makes this book work. I was reminded of Janet Frame's debut short story collection The Lagoon, though Mango Street has fewer of the stranger moments I loved about Frame's book.