About this title: This lively family novel concerns the Reyes clan, including "the Awful Grandmother," Soledad. Her granddaughter Lala delves into her grandmother's history as she recounts various colorful episodes in the family history, concluding that, "awful" though some of her relatives may be, she is blessed to be part of a large, close-knit--and often very entertaining--family. Sandra Cisneros has based this saga in part on her own large Mexican-American family. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780679742586ISBN:0679742581
Description: Acceptable. A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact (the dust cover may be missing). Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. ******PLEASE NOTE****** Orders placed after Dec. 7 cannot be guaranteed delivery before Christmas unless you select EXPEDITED shipping! Thank you & Happy Holidays! read more
Binding: Audiobook Cassette
Publisher: HarperAudio
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780060515911ISBN:0060515910
Description: A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. A former library with the usual identifiers. 10 cassettes unabridged. -, Audio Cassette, Very Good / read more
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"This book is one of my all time favorites; in fact, I think I need to read it again. I read this the summer that I went to Oaxaca not even knowing that I would be able to relate to what I was reading even better because of where I was. I traveled to Oaxaca with a group of Spanish and ESL teachers as part of a college course entitled, "Oaxaca, A Mexican Cultural Experience." Interestingly, there were five or six of us in the group who were either reading or had just read the book. This added to my enjoyment of reading and discussing the book."
"I really fell in love with this book at the beginning. I don't know how to explain it exactly, but it just felt so "Mexican" and there was a lot that I felt I could relate to. There were moments that I wondered if Sandra Cisneros had heard about my family and was ripping off some of our stories/characteristics... I did feel the last hundred pages lost some of the steam from first 300, maybe writing a book of this magnitude was too much for her. But overall, I really enjoyed it, it had all of the dramatic elements of a telenovela and felt strongly grounded in the realities of the Mexican immigrant experience (from my perspective)."
"I really love Cisneros' narrative technique in this book -- the interplay of fiction and history (complete with footnotes and backstory about the "real" events/people that pepper the novel), the changing viewpoints (Celaya vs. The Awful Grandmother), the jump in time periods (executed so much more creatively than your average flashback), the repetition of themes and words and phrases in a manner that pushes the story forward ("just enough," the girl who can't keep a secret, etc.), the way Cisneros outwardly questions the definition of storytelling -- fact vs. fiction, historia vs. cuento.
Add the wonderful, colorful, love-them-or-hate-them characters and Cisneros' vivid descriptions (of food, especially) and you have a book that is just so unbelievably rich, incredibly layered and just entertaining in the best way possible."
"Cisneros is a colorful writer. She brings life into words using vivid expressions. She makes me laugh, think and wonder at the same time. Her books deal with the same themes - one of them is the mexican-american culture, specifically those Mexicans born in the US and their struggle with not really feeling home neither in Mexico nor here. Also feminism has a strong place in her literature, especially the typical mexican latina clashing with the modern US latina. Hispanics have made their home in almost every US state by now, and affect our daily lifes, from the food we eat, to the services they perfrom for us. Cisneros will help us understand them better."
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