I've read this book several times for school before, but I wanted to read it again just on my own. It is a series of vignettes (really short, short stories) about a Latino girl growing up in Chicago. Some of the stories are sweet or funny, but many of them show how trapped people can get, especially women. One story even talks about a girl who gets married before she is in eighth grade. The last story talks about why she wrote this book and why the character (who is basically like Cisneros) left her neighborhood behind:
"They will not know I have gpne away to come back. For the ones I left behind. For the ones who cannot [get] out." (page 110, last sentences of book)
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