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A House of My Own: Stories from My Life (Vintage International)

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That made all the difference, to be born in a generation that I was able to reach my dream, and to have a mom who knew what it was to have a dream. The reflections on “otherness” are so beautifully nuanced and many readers surely would relate to the emotions and feelings expressed in this memoir. I lay down at the shallow lip of water and land where the sand, ridged and soft and firm at the same time, settled into the contours of my back and neck. The book's atypical form offers a truer portrait of Cisneros than might be found in a conventional autobiography.

And even when I locked it for the last time and looked at it one last moment, as I pulled away, I still felt proud of what my labor had been able to produce.A sense of detaching from myself, of sliding out of myself and connecting with everything in the universe. On that note, your book ends in a way I wasn't expecting — with you leaving the house that you had in San Antonio after spending so much time trying to find that space for yourself. B2 sees a turn for the naughty on the track Love And Lust with a xxx-rated vocal line slithering its way through the track, sandwiched in between high-pitched keys and a slinky drumline. From the Chicago neighborhoods where she grew up and set her groundbreaking The House on Mango Street to her abode in Mexico, in a region where "my ancestors lived for centuries," the places Sandra Cisneros has lived have provided inspiration for her now-classic works of fiction and poetry.

I also really liked how she centered quite a few of the essays around her connections to fellow creatives, many of which who were dead by the time she published this collection. You know, when I was a child, I always felt that I wanted to rescue my mom from the slights of her mother-in-law. In her new memoir, A House of My Own, the author recounts more than 30 years' worth of personal stories about the places she's lived and the writing they inspired. Perhaps most importantly, she wrote her life, a life many of us didn't know was an option as 'nobody's mother and nobody's wife' . It wasn't until I was an adult that I realized my mother wanted to be something other than a housewife, and she never got to do that.A House of My Own depicts Cisneros’s struggle for autonomy from the psychological, financial, and familial forces that might have made a writing life impossible. Cisneros offers generous tributes to authors whose work has been important to her, from Marguerite Duras and Eduardo Galeano to the poet Luis Omar Salinas. She perfectly conveyed what it felt like when you woke up on your eleventh birthday, the first time a momentous day doesn’t feel momentous.

Eventually you left your childhood home, and you achieved your dream of living alone and working when you finally bought your first house in San Antonio.Not until near the end do you realize what Cisneros has done, crafting a collection that lays out memories as the mind often sees them--in pieces, in fits and starts. Like a manifesto, it reasserts Cisneros's artistic credo--living alone, charting her path, seeing writing as 'a resistance, an act against forgetting, a war against oblivion, against not counting, as women' . She quotes Pico Iyer, home “is not just the place where you were born, it’s the place where you become yourself” (loc. In this collection of essays and talks, however, Cisneros asserts that the memories she presents “are a way of claiming my real life and differentiating it from my fiction, since there seems to be so much out there assumed or invented about me.

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