Its narrator claims that the Chinese do not like their women to be strong when she notes that she was born in the unlucky Year of the Horse.
The great-grandmother of this novel's narrator "looked out the window all her life," a result of her unhappy marriage to a man who abducted her by putting a sack over her head. Its narrator claims that the Chinese do not like their women to be strong when she notes that she was born in the unlucky Year of the Horse. A character named Minerva has to deal with her two children before she can write poetry, and another character prepares her father's lunch before taking multiple buses to college in the section "Alicia Who Sees Mice." The titular edifice is made of crumbling red brick and has tiny windows and no front yard and, leading Esperanza to dream of a big white home with three bathrooms. Dedicated "A las mujeres," for 10 points, name this work of 44 vignettes about a Chicano family's residence, by Sandra Cisneros.
The great-grandmother of this novel's narrator "looked out the window all her life," a result of her unhappy marriage to a man who abducted her by putting a sack over her head.
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