I’m really late to the party on this classic. I read the 25th anniversary edition, which included a beautiful forward by the author in which she explains who she was while she was writing this book. A young woman, on the cusp of being a true adult- a woman who wanted badly to please her father and also to satisfy her writer’s heart. She was learning how to express herself, and out came this series of vignettes about life growing up in Chicago. The people […]
“You can’t erase what you know. You can’t forget who you are.”
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros