The UUCG Book Group will meet next on
Wednesday, March 27th
at 7:00pm ET.
Location: Online via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/144736833

March selection: The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros

Summary: “The House on Mango Street is one of the most cherished novels of the last fifty years. Readers from all walks of life have fallen for the voice of Esperanza Cordero, growing up in Chicago and inventing for herself who and what she will become. “In English my name means hope,” she says. “In Spanish it means too many letters. It means sadness, it means waiting.”

Told in a series of vignettes—sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes joyous—Cisneros’s masterpiece is a classic story of childhood and self-discovery and one of the greatest neighborhood novels of all time. Like Sinclair Lewis’s Main Street or Toni Morrison’s Sula, it makes a world through people and their voices, and it does so in language that is poetic and direct. This gorgeous coming-of-age novel is a celebration of the power of telling one’s story and of being proud of where you’re from.”

All are welcome to join the discussion!

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Upcoming Selections:
April: Between, Georgia, by Joshilyn Jackson
Genre: Psychological Fiction/Domestic Fiction.
“A fun, sassy Southern tale.” (Goodreads)
May: Maus, Volume I
The first of two graphic novels by Art Spiegelman and first published in 1986

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