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Book Review of The House on Mango Street

The House on Mango Street
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"Vigorous, punch and imagistic. Cisneros knows exactly what she's after in her narrative -- and achieves it with admirable grace." -- San Antonio Express-News.

"Sandra Cisneros is one of the most brilliant of today's young writers. Her work is sensitive, alert, nuancefull...rich with music and picture." --Gwendolyn Brooks

Told in a series of vignettes stunning for their eloquence... is the story of a young girl growing up in the Hispanic quarter of Chicago.