COMMENTS

6 responses to “Senior Planet Book Club: The House on Mango Street”

1. The House on Mango Street is not a conventional novel. It presents
   moments in her life that give us a picture of what her life and her culture is like. In some ways, it is like the way that we remember our own lives. If you take it like that, it will make more sense. If you let go of the conventional
   book plot concept, you can build a sense of her from the separate pieces.

   I love the book because it gives such a sense of what she is like and what her life is like in a culture not just like our own.

   Reply to Nita Buchanan

2. I was overjoyed to hear this is our selection. I have an autographed copy of Mango Street. Have not read it in years. Also saw the book staged as a play years ago in Chicago. Each story is written with an attractive cadence that sways in the breeze like the sound of Chicago Latina conversation.
   Wish she was still writing more.

   It is not so much a linear novel but an anthology of remembrances that connects the narrator to that time and place.

   Reply to Audrey Myers

3. I did not read in order. In the first chapter, she says she wants to write stories so you can pick up anywhere. So, I read the last chapter to the first chapter.

   Reply to Su

4. I feel the same way and Judy and Joyce. I wonder at first if I had purchased the wrong book or just a summary of the book. I finished reading the book but had a hard time putting it all together. I hope when we get together as a group it will become clearer.

   Reply to Johnnie Taylor

5. I enjoy her writing, but I keep feeling that I’m waiting for it to begin. That the first 40 odd pages are an introduction to the “Novel”.

   Reply to Joyce Beattie

   1. I feel the same way. Are these supposed to be a little stories or does it go into a regular book?

      Reply to Judy Kaszas