

Caramelo
Author: Sandra Cisneros
Narrator: Sandra Cisneros
Unabridged: 15 hr 58 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 03/14/2006
Categories: Fiction, Hispanic & Latino, Family Life
Author: Sandra Cisneros
Narrator: Sandra Cisneros
Unabridged: 15 hr 58 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 03/14/2006
Categories: Fiction, Hispanic & Latino, Family Life
Sandra Cisneros was born in Chicago in 1954. Internationally acclaimed for her poetry and fiction, she has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Lannan Literary Award and the American Book Award, and of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the MacArthur Foundation. Cisneros is the author of The House on Mango Street, Woman Hollering Creek, Loose Woman, and My Wicked Ways. She lives in the Southwest.
Through the main storyteller Celaya, Cisneros has created an epic Chicana novel that deals with issues of laguage, class, race, gender, family, and being on the border of two cultures. She also brings into consideration the issue of truth-telling versus story-telling. Are they mutually exclusive? If......more
This book was definitely worthwhile, but Cisneros seems to have been a bit overwhelmed by the task of composing an entire novel. She has many, many gorgeous lines strewn about the book tied to swift dialogue and gripping mini-stories, interrupted by simply cute moments, but the plot and her point ar......more
I really loved this book, and I was completely surprised that I did. When I'm handed a book and the summary from the person giving it to me is prefaced by "well, it's really slow at first...", let's just say I don't have high expectations. I can be a lazy reader, but this book was completely worth t......more